US12249343B2
Methods and systems for assisting tonally-challenged singers. A microphone can be integrated with a sound reinforcement system used in a live performance. The microphone, which can transduce the performer's voice, can serve multiple purposes such as, for example, to feed input to the natural ear and to the sound reinforcement system. The processed sound of the performer's voice (with fundamental frequency emphasized) can be mixed into the signal fed to a stage “monitor” speaker facing the performer or a headset worn by the performer.
US12249342B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for processing audio and visually presenting information are provided. Audio data captured from an environment of a wearer of a wearable apparatus may be obtained. The audio data may be analyzed to obtain textual information. The audio data may be analyzed to associate different portions of the textual information with different speakers. A head mounted display system may be used to present each portion of the textual information in a presentation region associated with the speaker associated with the portion of the textual information. In one example, it may be determined that a part of the textual information is associated with speech that do not involve the user, and presenting the part may be avoided. In one example, a part of the textual information may be associated with speech produced by a user, and presenting the part may be avoided.
US12249341B2
An electronic apparatus includes an interface configured to connect with an external apparatus, and a processor. The processor is configured to, in response to a first user speech received by the electronic apparatus including a trigger word, identify a first noise level corresponding to the first user speech received by the electronic apparatus. The processor is configured to identify a first recognition apparatus among a plurality of recognition apparatuses having a highest first noise level corresponding to the first user speech. The plurality of recognition apparatuses identify the first user speech as the trigger word and include the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus. The processor is configured to perform a control operation to implement a function corresponding to a second user speech in response to identifying a second recognition apparatus as having a highest second noise level corresponding to the second user speech among the plurality of recognition apparatuses.
US12249324B1
Data is received by an automated spoken language learning and assessment system that includes a passage of text comprising a response to stimulus material. Thereafter, at least one machine learning model is used to detect absent key points within the passage of text and/or location spans of key points in the passage of text. The at least one machine learning model can be trained using a corpus with annotated key points and a span for each key point. In addition, each of the detected key points is scored by at least one key point quality model to result in a corresponding key point score. Diagnostic feedback targeting content development skills is then determined based on the detecting and using the key point scores. Data can then be provided which characterizes such diagnostic feedback. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12249322B1
An intent recognition method, an intent recognition apparatus, a storage medium and a computer device are provided, aiming to improve the accuracy and the efficiency of the intent recognition, which relates to the technical field of information. The method includes: acquiring user's audio to be recognized; determining multi-frame audio feature vectors corresponding to the audio to be recognized; inputting the multi-frame audio feature vectors into a preset intent recognition model to obtain multiple output sequences corresponding to the multi-frame audio feature vectors, wherein the output sequences comprise blank characters and non-blank characters; and determining a target intent corresponding to the audio to be recognized based on the multiple output sequences. The present disclosure is suitable for recognizing the intent of the user.
US12249321B2
Techniques are described herein for selectively processing a user's utterances captured prior to and after an event that invokes an automated assistant to determine the user's intent and/or any parameters required for resolving the user's intent. In various implementations, respective measures of fitness for triggering responsive action by the automated assistant may be determined for pre-event and a post-event input streams. Based on the respective measures of fitness, one or both of the pre-event input stream or post-event input stream may be selected and used to cause the automated assistant to perform one or more responsive actions.
US12249312B2
A method and system directed to controlling audio devices with active noise reduction. The system detects a first instability condition in a first headphone based on one or more parameters; alters a parameter of the one or more parameters; and detects a second audio instability condition in the first headphone based on the altered parameter of the one or more parameters. The first and second audio instability conditions are related to audio feedback.
US12249307B2
In one aspect, a computerized method of auditory therapeutic stimulation with a mobile-device application includes the step of, with a mobile device, providing an auditory therapeutic stimulation application operative in the mobile device. The method includes the step of receiving a user input comprising a user pathology of the user or an athletic goal of the user. The method includes the step of associating the user input with a neurological region of user's brain; determine a tone frequency that stimulates the neurological region of user's brain. The method includes the step of determining a specified period to play the tone frequency. The method includes the step of playing the tone frequency to the user for the specified period of time.
US12249298B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for reducing gamut mapping luminance loss. A gain value of at least one primary color may be reduced in a native color gamut based on an analog technique (e.g., using a DDIC in a display panel) to provide a reduced color gamut that is smaller than the native color gamut. The reduced color gamut may have a same luminance as the native color gamut. One or more colors included in the native color gamut may be mapped via a digital technique (e.g., using a DPU or other processor) to the reduced color gamut. The mapping may be configured to provide a threshold level of color accuracy in the reduced color gamut.
US12249288B2
A source driver is provided. The source driver includes: a switch circuit with first switches, which are respectively connected between a first charge sharing line and data lines; and a charge sharing controller configured to: receive pieces of first pixel data, which respectively correspond to the data lines, and pieces of second pixel data, which respectively correspond to the of first pixel data; output a charge sharing signal having an active level to a first group of switches among the first switches respectively connected to first data lines from among the lines, based on the pieces of first pixel data and the pieces of second pixel data corresponding to the first data lines being different from each other in at least two upper bits thereof.
US12249274B2
A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of sub-pixel areas, each including a pixel circuit, each pixel circuit including: a diode, configured to be in a forward-biasing state during a display phase of the pixel circuit for light-emitting and configured to be in a reverse-biasing state in a sensing phase of the pixel circuit to generate a sensing voltage; a driving transistor for driving the diode during the display phase; a readout transistor, with a gate receiving the sensing voltage during the sensing phase to serve as a source follower; first to seventh transistors, gate control signals applied to the gates of the first to seventh transistors so that the pixel circuit switches between the display phase and the sensing phase; and a capacitor for storing a data voltage to be written to the diode in the display phase.
US12249273B2
A display device includes connection lines, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) data lines configured to receive pulse width modulation (PWM) data voltages, PWM data lines configured to receive the PWM data voltages, a first connection control line configured to receive a first connection control signal, a second connection control line configured to receive a second connection control signal, subpixels connected to the PWM data lines and the PAM data lines, and a first demultiplexer (demux) unit configured to connect the connection lines to the PAM data lines or to the PWM data lines according to the first connection control signal and the second connection control signal.
US12249268B2
A pixel includes: first to fourth driving transistors; a first light emitting diode connected to the first driving transistor; a second light emitting diode connected to the second driving transistor and spaced apart from the first light emitting diode in a first direction; a third light emitting diode connected to the third driving transistor and disposed between the first light emitting diode and the second light emitting diode; and a fourth light emitting diode connected to the fourth driving transistor and disposed between the first light emitting diode and the second light emitting diode, wherein a planar area of the first driving transistor is smaller than a planar area of each of the third and fourth driving transistors, a planar area of the second driving transistor is smaller than a planar area of each of the third and fourth driving transistors, and a first data signal is applied to the first and second driving transistors.
US12249263B2
One example provides, on a scanning mirror display system, a method for communicating timing information for light samples that are scanned to form a displayed image. The method comprises, for a line of light samples, encoding timing information for a first light sample of the line of light samples using a first, greater number of bits to form encoded timing information for the first light sample. The method further comprises encoding timing information for a subsequent light sample of the line of light samples by computing a derivative based upon a timing of the subsequent light sample compared to a prior light sample, encoding the derivative using a second, lesser number of bits to form encoded timing information for the subsequent light sample, and sending the information for the first light sample and the subsequent light sample across the communications channel.
US12249254B2
A rotorcraft flight simulator system includes physical flight control devices for a rotorcraft vehicle. Each of the flight control devices is configured to generate, when actuated, one or more control signals via an output connector of that flight control device. The system includes a programmable interface with multiple input pins, and each of the output connectors is coupled to a respective input pin. The programmable interface includes a controller configured to attribute particular control signals received at a particular input pin to a specific flight control device. The system includes a flight simulator computer configured to receive output signals from the controller via an Ethernet port. The output signals include, for the specific flight control device, header information indicating the specific flight control device and flight control data corresponding to a particular control signal received at the particular input pin that is associated with the specific flight control device.
US12249251B2
A virtual environment may be provided, the virtual environment including a procedurally generated virtual landscape. The virtual landscape may include various components, such as natural terrain elements, infrastructural elements, and residential/commercial properties, that are automatically generated based upon procedural rules so as to provide uniqueness of any one virtual landscape. A user may enter the virtual environment and, via various virtual tools, identify aspects of the generated virtual landscape that affect risk to one or more of the properties therein.
US12249242B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for providing real-time holding and diversion information to a pilot of an aircraft. In one aspect, the pilot uses an electronic flight bag (EFB) or a flight management computer (FMC) to display in a GUI the holding and diversion information. For example, the EFB can receive ADS-B data that can be used to determine the location of the aircraft in the holding queue (i.e., the aircraft's queue position) and predict the amount of time before the aircraft will be able to land. The EFB or FMC can also display diversion information regarding one or more alternate locations (e.g., alternate airports) in the GUI. In one aspect, the EFB or FMC calculate a bingo fuel and the time until reaching the bingo fuel and the pilot must divert.
US12249236B2
A processing apparatus for generating route navigation data is provided, to, generate training data based on road network data corresponding to a network of roads in a defined geographical area, and journey data sets, each journey data set comprising data indicative of a journey by a road user through the network of roads and being derived using geolocation transmissions from a communications device of the road user, train a classifier model based on the training data, apply the trained classifier model on road data corresponding to a road in the defined geographical area, for the trained classifier model to predict a direction of traffic flow on the road, and generate the route navigation data indicative of the predicted direction of the traffic flow on the road. A method for generating route navigation data is also provided.
US12249234B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing, among other things, a device including a heartbeat mimetic unit configured to generate an acoustic stimulus that mimics a heartbeat. In an embodiment, the device includes a warm-touch unit configured to generate a thermal stimulus. In an embodiment, the device includes a controller unit operably coupled to the heartbeat mimetic unit and the warm touch unit, the controller unit configured to activate at least one of the heartbeat mimetic unit or the warm-touch unit. In an embodiment, the device includes a communication unit configured to exchange at least one of heartbeat mimetic data or warm-touch data with a remote network.
US12249230B2
A smart vehicle locator system including a base housing unit, a motor, an illumination device, an antenna device, a controller, and a remote control device. The base housing unit is configured to attach to a vehicle. The motor is contained in the base housing unit and the motor is configured to actuate motion of a motorized antenna. The illumination device includes a plurality of lights and is attached to a proximate end of the motorized antenna. The motorized antenna is housed in the removable housing unit in a default state and is controlled by the controller, wherein the motorized antenna is deployed and erected vertically from the base housing unit when activated by the controller and wherein the motorized antenna collapses into the base housing structure when deactivated by the controller and when in a default state. The remote control device includes at least one control key and at least one status indicator. The controller transmits and receives signals to and from the remote control device. The controller activates the motorized antenna to deploy so long as no objects are detected within the vertical range of motion of the motorized antenna if the motorized antenna is erected.
US12249225B2
RFID-based electronic surveillance article systems are provided with first and second receiving antennas. An RF signal is transmitted to an RFID device, which transmits a return signal that is received by the receiving antennas. A position of the RFID device may be determined based on a difference between the strength of the return signal when received by the first antenna and the strength of the return signal when received by the second antenna. If RF signals are transmitted by the receiving antennas, the position of the RFID device may be determined by changing the strengths of the RF signals transmitted by each antenna and comparing the strength of the RF signal transmitted by the first antenna when the RFID device is at a threshold for receiving the signal to the strength of the RF signal transmitted by the second antenna when the RFID device is at the threshold.
US12249222B2
An electronic gaming machine that includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor configured to control the display device to display a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels and display a first bingo card and a second bingo card wherein the first bingo card includes a first feature indicator and the second bingo card includes a second feature indicator, store in the memory device a first memory structure corresponding to the first bingo card and a second memory structure corresponding to the second bingo card, and in response to determining that a first prize symbol indicator of a first prize symbol displayed in the matrix of symbol positions corresponds to a combination of the first feature indicator and the second feature indicator, populate a position on each of the first bingo card and the second bingo card with the first prize symbol.
US12249221B2
A localized electronic betting system includes: a smart contract generation module and a results engine located in a same low-latency environment as the smart contract generation module, wherein: the smart contract generation module is configured to receive a first betting statement from a first user device located within the low-latency environment, to generate a smart contract based on the first betting statement, the smart contract including a criterion to be met and configured to self-execute in response to a determination that the criterion is met, and to transmit the generated smart contract to a local blockchain node located within the low-latency environment; the results engine is configured, based on content received from a results source, to determine information indicative of whether the criterion in the first betting statement is met; and the localized betting system is configured to transmit a signal to the local blockchain node for storage on a local blockchain ledger or a local copy of a blockchain ledger, the signal containing the information indicative of whether the criterion is met. An equivalent method is also provided.
US12249218B2
A gaming machine having a number of reels. Each of the reels includes at least one special symbol that in either in an active state or a normal state. Each of the reels is in either a held state or a symbol collection state indicative of a number of special symbols currently collected. During a game, when the number of special symbols of a reel reaches a predetermined number, the special symbols on the reel are in an active state for a next play of the game. While in the active state, when a special symbol is selected for the reel, the reel is in a held state a subsequent play of the game.
US12249203B2
Provided are a cash dispenser unit (CDU) and an automatic recovery method of the same. The CDU includes a storage for storing bills, a withdrawal part for externally discharging bills withdrawn from the storage, a retrieval part for retrieving bills remaining on a bill conveyance path between the storage and the withdrawal part, a conveyance part for providing the bill conveyance path between the storage and the retrieval part and the bill conveyance path between the storage and the withdrawal part and including a first conveyance part connecting an outlet of the storage and a conveyance path connector, a second conveyance part connecting the conveyance path connector and an entry of the retrieval part, and a third conveyance part connecting the entry of the retrieval part and the withdrawal part, wherein the first conveyance part, the second conveyance part, and the third conveyance part are driven by one motor, a gate provided at the entry of the retrieval part to switch a travel direction of bills passing through the conveyance path toward the retrieval part, and a controller for controlling an operation of withdrawing or retrieving the bills and restoring the CDU to a normal operation state in a case of initialization or recovery from a power failure by retrieving bills remaining on the bill conveyance path of the conveyance part to the retrieval part.
US12249200B2
A computer-implemented solution is provided to allow electronic locks to implement commands more complex than simply opening or closing, such as timeframe-dependent commands, without requiring an access to the Internet at the time of access. At a remote computer, such as a cloud server, computer-readable instructions initially provided in a sequence of plain text characters, are encrypted into a user code using format preserving encryption (FPE) (e.g. FF3-1). The user code is communicated to the user. The user can then input the user code into the electronic lock via a numerical keypad or other suitable means. The lock is provided with computer functionalities which include a functionality to decrypt the cipher text of the user code back into plain text programming instructions using a decryption key, and execute it. The execution can involve determining whether one or more authorization condition is/are satisfied.
US12249197B2
This notifying device is provided with: a notifying unit which detects an object present at the periphery of a vehicle, and notifies a passenger of the presence of the object; and a notification control unit in which a low departure operation, among the operations of an operating unit for operating the vehicle, for which the intention of the driver to depart is estimated to be at most equal to a predetermined threshold, is set in advance, wherein, if the low departure operation is executed while the vehicle is stopped, the notification control unit controls the notifying unit to suppress the level of notifications compared with a situation in which the vehicle is traveling.
US12249190B2
A method for checking a level of damage of at least one part of an aircraft. According to the disclosure, such a method comprises at least: a collection step for receiving data representative of measurements of at least one flight parameter, the data being generated during a mission of the aircraft by at least one embedded sensor; a projection step for projecting points onto a map in order to form an image point; an identification step for identifying, for each image point, an image zone in which the image point is located; and an analysis step for statistically analyzing the identified image zones and determining the level of damage of the at least one aircraft part.
US12249189B2
Systems, methods and apparatus of predictive maintenance of automotive lights. For example, a vehicle has: a vehicle light assembly; sensors configured on the vehicle to measure operating parameters of the vehicle light assembly; an artificial neural network configured to analyze the operating parameters of the vehicle light assembly as a function of time to generate a result; and at least one processor configured to generate a suggestion for a maintenance service of the vehicle light assembly based on the result from the artificial neural network analyzing the operating parameters of the vehicle light assembly. For example, the sensors can be configured to measure ambient light intensity, light intensity reflected by a surface illuminated by the light, current and/or voltage in the light, and/or light intensity at a location illuminated by both environment and the light.
US12249183B2
The present disclosure discloses an apparatus and a method for detecting a facial pose, an image processing system, and a storage medium. The apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit to obtain at least three keypoints of at least one face from an input image based on a pre-generated neural network, wherein coordinates of the keypoints obtained via a layer in the neural network for obtaining coordinates are three-dimensional coordinates; and a determining unit to determine, for the at least one face, a pose of the face based on the obtained keypoints, wherein the determined facial pose includes at least an angle. According to the present disclosure, the accuracy of the three-dimensional coordinates of the facial keypoints can be improved, thus the detection precision of a facial pose can be improved.
US12249182B2
An image providing apparatus (10) includes a registration unit (12) for registering a plurality of captured images of a predetermined user taken at a plurality of locations, respectively, in a storage unit (11), an acquisition unit (13) for acquiring a first image of the user captured at a specific location, a specification unit (14) for specifying one or more second images including a face area whose degree of match with a face area of the user included in the first image is greater than or equal to a predetermined value from among the plurality of captured images, a generation unit (15) for generating a composite image including the specified second image, and an output unit (16) for outputting the composite image.
US12249172B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a text recognition result including a text string included in an image and position information of the text string in the image, display the text string included in the text recognition result, and specify, in a case where the displayed text string is corrected, position information corresponding to the corrected text string, among pieces of the position information associated with each text string included in the text recognition result.
US12249171B2
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to text extraction from a document. A computing device receives the document. The document comprises computer-readable text and a layout, wherein the layout defines positions of the computer-readable text. Responsive to receiving the document, the computing device identifies at least one textual element in the computer-readable text based upon spatial factors between portions of the computer-readable text and contextual relationships between the portions of the computer-readable text. The computing device then outputs the at least one textual element.
US12249169B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for processing multiple documents in an image. First, text from each of one or more documents in an image can be identified. An orientation of each of the one or more documents can be determined based at least in part on an alignment of the text of each of the one or more documents. Additionally, using an object detection model, the one or more documents in the image can be identified based at least in part on the orientation of each of the one or more documents. Finally, the one or more documents can be separated from the image into one or more separate image files, each separate image file representing a respective document of the one or more documents.
US12249165B2
An asset monitoring system includes a server, and a monitoring system mounted in a container. The monitoring system includes a camera, a transceiver, and a controller configured to control the camera to capture images of the inside of a container, and control the transceiver transmit the images to a server. The server is configured to process the images to determine loading data including at least one of an unused volume or an unused floor space inside the container, and transmit the loading data to a customer computer.
US12249163B2
In various examples, object fence corresponding to objects detected by an ego-vehicle may be used to determine overlap of the object fences with lanes on a driving surface. A lane mask may be generated corresponding to the lanes on the driving surface, and the object fences may be compared to the lanes of the lane mask to determine the overlap. Where an object fence is located in more than one lane, a boundary scoring approach may be used to determine a ratio of overlap of the boundary fence, and thus the object, with each of the lanes. The overlap with one or more lanes for each object may be used to determine lane assignments for the objects, and the lane assignments may be used by the ego-vehicle to determine a path or trajectory along the driving surface.
US12249151B2
Examples provide a video security system including an electronic processor configured to detect an anomaly by obtaining video data captured using an image sensor and determining a number of people detected in each of a plurality of frames of the video data. For each moment t, the electronic processor determines an average number of people n over a time interval (t−Δt1, t), where Δt1 is greater than or equal to the moment t. For each non-overlapping time interval Δt1, the electronic processor updates a histogram based on the average number of people for the time interval Δt1. In response to determining, using the histogram, that the probability ρ of the average number of people n over the time interval (t−Δt1, t) is less than a threshold probability ρ*, the electronic processor generates an alert indicating that an anomalous crowd size is detected.
US12249141B2
A pupil separation system includes an input surface and a central portion including one or more dichroic mirrors. The pupil separation system also includes a reflective surface disposed laterally with respect to the central portion and an output surface including a central surface operable to transmit light in a first wavelength range and a peripheral surface operable to transmit light in a second wavelength range different from the first wavelength range. The light in the second wavelength range is reflected by the one or more dichroic mirrors before being reflected by the reflective surface.
US12249138B2
A method for classifying a human-object interaction includes identifying a human-object interaction in the input. Context features of the input are identified. Each identified context feature is compared with the identified human-object interaction. An importance of the identified context feature is determined for the identified human-object interaction. The context feature is fused with the identified human-object interaction when the importance is greater than a threshold.
US12249135B2
An information processing apparatus (20) according to the present disclosure includes a control unit (230). When a display image is displayed on a transmissive display in which real space is visually recognizable, a control unit (230) detects, from the display image, a transparent area through which the real space is seen. The control unit (230) corrects pixel values of at least a part of an area in the transparent area of the display image.
US12249132B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for adapting generative neural networks to target domains utilizing an image translation neural network. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize an image translation neural network to translate target results to a source domain for input in target neural network adaptation. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems compare a translated target result with a source result from a pretrained source generative neural network to adjust parameters of a target generative neural network to produce results corresponding in features to source results and corresponding in style to the target domain.
US12249129B2
The preset invention aims to provide a method of presenting a learning condition which enables an improvement in the accuracy of image analysis. An information processing apparatus for machine learning is provided which includes a true/false information generating unit which generates true/false information of an image analysis result, a reliability determining unit which determines reliability related to analysis in image analysis processing, and a learning condition output unit which presents a learning condition, based on the true/false information and the reliability.
US12249127B1
Electronic information is received. Training images are created from the received electronic information. The training images comprise a format having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, each of the rows indicative of a time and each of the columns representing a feature characteristic, the matrix of rows and columns together forming a visual image. Subsequent to the completion of the training of the neural network, production images are applied. The production images having the same format as the training images to the trained neural network, each production image being from a different customer and pictorially presenting behavior of each different customer with respect to the telecommunication or data service. The application of the production images to the trained neural network resulting in the creation of one or more control signals by the trained neural network.
US12249123B2
A feature extractor and novel training objective are provided for content-based image retrieval. For example, a computer-implemented method includes applying a query image and a search image to a neural network of a feature extraction network of a computing device, the query image indicating an object to be searched for in the search image. The feature extraction network includes the neural network, a spatial feature neural network receiving a first output of the neural network pertaining to the search image, and an embedding network receiving a second output of the neural network pertaining to the query image. The method includes generating spatial search features from the spatial feature neural network, generating a query feature from the embedding network, applying the query feature to an artificial neural network (ANN) index, and determining an optimal matching result of an object in the search image based on an operation using the ANN index.
US12249122B2
A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to receive, at a deep neural network, an image captured by an image capture device. The processor is also programmed to generate a predicted distortion map based on the image and update at least one weight of the deep neural network based on a loss function of the deep neural network.
US12249100B2
A method includes obtaining multiple images of a scene using an imaging sensor associated with a vehicle, where the images of the scene capture lane marking lines associated with a traffic lane in which the vehicle is traveling. The method also includes identifying, in each of at least some of the images, a vanishing point based on the lane marking lines captured in the image. The method further includes identifying an average position of the vanishing points in the at least some of the images. In addition, the method includes determining one or more extrinsic calibration parameters of the imaging sensor based on the average position of the vanishing points. The one or more extrinsic calibration parameters of the imaging sensor may include a pitch angle and a yaw angle of the imaging sensor.
US12249098B2
A surveying device for a coordinative position determination of a spatial point, wherein the surveying device comprises a camera which is fixedly mounted to a transmission unit in a way that its field-of-view moves with a targeting component. The surveying device further comprises an image evaluator, configured for automatically identifying corresponding image features in different images of the camera, wherein the corresponding image features represent reference points within the environment, and for a derivation of a spatial transformation parameter from a motion of the corresponding features, wherein the spatial transformation parameter provides for a determination of a difference of a spatial pose of a target axis of the surveying device between different distance measurements which correspond to different images.
US12249097B2
An object-collection system is disclosed. The system including a vehicle connected to a bucket, a camera connected to the vehicle, and an object picking assembly configured to pick up objects off of ground. The system further includes a processor that obtains object information for identified objects, guides the object-collection system over a target geographical area toward the identified objects based on the object information, captures images of the ground relative to the object picker as the object-collection system is guided towards the identified objects, identifies a target object in the images, tracks movement of the target object across the images as the object-collection system is guided towards the identified objects, and employs the tracked movement of the target object to instruct the object picker to pick up the target object.
US12249095B2
A specifying part sets: a first end point which is on a straight line and attributes to a first apex of a plurality of apexes of a frame that is at a first side in a front orthogonal direction and closer to a to-machine side; a second end point which is on the straight line and attributes to a second apex of the plurality of apexes of the frame that is at a second side in the front orthogonal direction and closer to the to-machine side; and a midpoint between the first end point and the second end point. The specifying part determines one of the first end point, the second end point, and the midpoint as a coordinate indicative of a position of an object according to an operation pattern of an operating part.
US12249094B2
An inter-device positional relationship estimation apparatus includes an analysis information acquisition unit that acquires time-series analysis information, a recommendation processing unit that estimates unanalyzed detailed information in time-series analysis information applying a predetermined recommendation algorithm, an initial map creation unit that calculates a neighborhood determination point indicating a degree of correlation of detailed information between fixed devices to create an initial map, and a device relationship map creation unit that calculates neighborhood points indicating a degree of correlation of detailed information between respective devices including a moving device or/and a new fixed device to calculate a detection probability and a movement time between devices and create a device relationship map.
US12249092B2
In one embodiment, a computing system accesses a set of 3D locations associated with features in an environment previously captured by a camera from a previous camera pose. The computing system determines a predicted camera pose using the previous camera pose and motion measurements generated using a motion sensor associated with the camera. The computing system projects the set of 3D locations toward the predicted camera pose and onto a 2D image plane associated with the camera. The computing system generates, based on the projected set of 3D locations on the 2D image plane, an activation map specifying a subset of the pixel sensors of the camera that are to be activated. The computing system instructs, using the activation map, the camera to activate the subset of pixel sensors to capture a new image of the environment. The computing system reads pixel values of the new image.
US12249082B2
Methods for identifying and tracking an article are disclosed. During a journey, an article follows a path between an origin and a destination. An image of the article is captured during the journey and a first characteristic vector determined from the image of the article. The first characteristic vector is compared with a set of predetermined characteristic vectors and, based on the comparison, the first article is either associated with an identifier associated with a corresponding one of the predetermined characteristic vectors, or is associated with a new identifier.
US12249077B2
Techniques are provided for determining consistency measures for image segmentation. For instance, a system can determine a first segmentation feature associated with a first segmentation mask of a first image frame. The system can determine a second segmentation feature associated with a second segmentation mask of a second image frame. The second segmentation feature corresponds to the first segmentation feature. The system can determine a first image feature of the first image frame that corresponds to the first segmentation feature and a second image feature of the second image frame that corresponds to the second segmentation feature. The system can determine a first similarity measurement between the first image feature and the second image feature. The system can further determine a temporal consistency measurement associated with the first image frame and the second image frame based at least in part on the first similarity measurement.
US12249052B2
A system and/or method uses a trained U-Net neural network to remove flow artifacts from optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography (OCTA) data. The trained U-Net receives as input both OCT structural volume data and OCTA volume data, but expands the OCTA volume data to include depth information. The U-Net applies dynamic pooling along the depth direction and weighs more heavily the portion of the data that follows (e.g., along the contours of) select retinal layers. In this manner the U-Net applies contextually different computations at different axial locations based at least in part on the depth index information and/or (e.g., proximity to) the select retinal layers. The U-net outputs OCT volume data of reduced flow artifacts as compared with the input OCTA data.
US12249050B2
A computer-implemented method includes obtaining 3D model of real-world environment; receiving image of real-world environment captured using camera and pose information indicative of camera pose from which image is captured; utilising 3D model of real-world environment to generate reconstructed depth map from perspective of camera pose; and applying extended depth-of-field correction to image segment(s) of image that is/are out of focus, by using point spread function determined for camera, based on optical depths in segment(s) of reconstructed depth map corresponding to image segment(s) of image.
US12249049B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and an image presentation system capable of presenting a more suitable image to the interior of a vehicle. An image processing unit generates a presentation image to be presented to the interior of a second vehicle that is traveling, on the basis of a vehicle external image obtained by capturing an environment outside a first vehicle that is traveling. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a projector type presentation device.
US12249040B2
Systems and methods of automatically controlling, on a graphical user interface used by a physician, display views of an anatomic structure of a patient. Such systems and methods of automatically controlling display views of an anatomic structure of a patient can facilitate visualizing a position of a medical device relative to the anatomic structure during a medical procedure directed to the anatomic structure. In certain implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide automatic display views of a cardiac catheter relative to a three-dimensional model of a patient's heart cavity during a medical procedure such as cardiac ablation.
US12249027B2
A three-dimensional model generation method executed by an information processing device includes: obtaining a first three-dimensional model from a measuring device that emits an electromagnetic wave and obtains a reflected wave which is the electromagnetic wave reflected by a measurement target to thereby generate a first three-dimensional model including first position information indicating first three-dimensional positions in the measurement target; obtaining a multi-viewpoint image generated by one or more cameras shooting the measurement target from different positions; and generating a second three-dimensional model by enhancing the definition of the first three-dimensional model using the multi-viewpoint image.
US12249019B2
Systems and methods for rendering a 3D image are provided. The system receives image data including a texture matrix and a corresponding depth matrix. The system generates a first weight matrix based on a number of least significant bits of each depth value of the depth matrix. The system generating a second weight matrix that is a complement of the first weight matrix. The system generates the first folded focal plane matrix by applying weights of the first weight matrix to the texture matrix. The system generates the second folded focal plane matrix by applying weights of the second weight matrix to the texture matrix. The system provides the first and the second folded focal planes matrices to a display device for generating a 3D representation of the received texture matrix.
US12249009B2
A method for compensating motion in positron emission tomographic, PET, data comprising coincident lines of response from positron-emitting position markers, includes: detecting a slippage of one or more of the position markers; determining slippage correction parameters based on the detected slippage; and applying motion correction to the PET data by taking into account the slippage correction parameters, thereby obtaining a motion-compensated PET data.
US12249002B2
A computer-implemented method that provides watermark-based image reconstruction to compensate for lossy encoding schemes. The method can generate a difference image describing the data loss associated with encoding an image using a lossy encoding scheme. The difference image can be encoded as a message and embedded in the encoded image using a watermark and later extracted from the encoded image. The difference image can be added to the encoded image to reconstruct the original image. As an example, an input image encoded using a lossy JPEG compression scheme can be embedded with the lost data and later reconstructed, using the embedded data, to a fidelity level that is identical or substantially similar to the original.
US12248997B2
A matrix format with one dimension showing categories of the flights and one dimension showing ranges of the categories can be used by a customer looking for a travel flight. The selection of the customer on the flight matrix can be converted to travel preferences, which can be stored in a travel preference profile of the customer. The travel preference profile can be updated when the customer searches and books travel flights. Ultimately, the travel preference profile can reflect the customer desires and subsequent travel searches can results in a small number of, preferable only one, flight itineraries most suitable to the customer.
US12248996B2
In general, intelligent fuel dispensers are provided. In at least some implementations, an intelligent fuel dispenser can determine customer identities and/or other characteristics and provide customized fueling sessions based on the determined customer identities and/or other characteristics. In at least some implementations, the fuel dispenser includes a touchless interface allowing customers to complete fueling sessions with minimal physical contact with the fuel dispenser.
US12248993B2
The following relates generally to artificial intelligence (AI)-based responses to social media posts. In some embodiments, one or more processors may be configured to: (1) receive, via a chatbot, a social media post; (2) categorize, via the chatbot, the social media post; (3) determine, via the chatbot, based upon the categorization, an entity to contact; (4) build, via the chatbot, based upon the determined entity to contact, a response to the social media post; and/or (5) send, via the chatbot, the response to the entity.
US12248988B1
Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
US12248987B2
The present invention discloses a system and method of trading derivatives purchased on a blockchain within the traditional broker-dealer ecosystem. In these systems and methods, derivatives purchased on a blockchain can be traded within the traditional broker-dealer ecosystem by a user using their brokerage account. Users participate on a digital trading platform within the traditional broker-dealer ecosystem, where they take an action that comprises the placement of at least one of an order, bid or offer on the derivatives.
US12248977B1
A system and method for contemporaneous and combined in-store shopping among multiple individuals uses: a central server that is in communication with a database storing information associated with products located within a physical store (in-store products); and a plurality of mobile devices, with each mobile device being located within the physical store and in communication with the central server. A communication to the central server from one of the mobile devices initializes a combined shopping session in which two or more mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices located within the physical store are used to scan in-store products. Information associated with each in-store product scanned by the two or more mobile devices is retrieved from the database and added to one of a plurality of individual shopping transactions. The information within the plurality of individual shopping transactions is subsequently combined into a single, combined shopping transaction.
US12248972B2
Techniques to help reduce latency and improve computer performance including managing latency between client computers over a network with server computers including determining configurable time period, communicating quote data to client computers, determining most recent quote data from a cache and determining whether to execute quote data based on quote version data and time data associated with the quote data and based on the configurable time period.
US12248971B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide access to a first-level computing resource via a service catalog. In some instances, the first-level computing resource can be created by a first entity. Moreover, a second-level computing resource can be received. In some cases, the second-level computing resource can be created by a second entity based, at least in part, on the first-level computing resource. Access to the second-level computing resource can be provided via the service catalog. Relational information associated with the first-level computing resource and the second-level computing resource can be tracked.
US12248970B2
The present invention presents a method and device. A headset comprising a display, wherein the headset is at least one of an AR, VR or mixed reality headset, wherein the headset is used by a first user. A computer system comprising a plurality of computer processors with one or more network interfaces. A virtual 3D space comprising at least one live streaming video and a 3D model. A live streaming video content creator, wherein the live streaming video is being live broadcast by the live streaming video content creator. Displaying the live streaming video in the virtual 3D space on the first user's mixed reality headset display. Displaying a live streaming video in the virtual 3D space on the campaign backer's computing device's display, wherein a combination of a live streaming video shown on a virtual screen and a 3D model is displayed.
US12248964B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
US12248963B2
A dynamic digital advertising content system having a front end system and a back end system, and used to present product content to a user's computing device in the form of a digital circular. The back end system provides retailers and third party access to upload, and update, product content information for the digital circular, including videos and animations. The dynamic digital advertising content system can include integrations for third-parties such as digital coupon providers and loyalty program providers. The system permits users the ability to share with other users merchandise displayed in the digital circular and/or selected for a shopping list. Such shared content can be dynamically arranged for subsequent presentation on a computing device of the recipient. The digital circular is further customizable for individual retailers or retailer locations, as well as customizable based on detected histories and/or characteristics of the user receiving the digital circular.
US12248954B2
A system for managing consumer research may include a processing server, a collaboration server, and a scheduling server. The processing server, the collaboration server, and/or the scheduling server may be instantiated on a cloud-based processing device. The system may include various databases, include a respondent database, a segment database, and/or a document database. The system may include virtual dashboards for a researcher conducting a research study, a virtual dashboard for a research subject participating in the research study, and/or a virtual dashboard for a customer that requests the research study.
US12248940B2
A ledger based dynamic digital address masking solution for reducing vulnerability of private cryptographic keys used during digital transactions. Tokenized digital transaction addresses may be stored in association with an actual distributed ledger reference address. The tokenized transaction address, or recipient token, may be used to complete a variety of transactions for digital asset exchange without exposing the transaction address's actual reference address on the distributed ledger.
US12248939B2
A mobile device with a first transceiver, a second transceiver, one or more processors, and memory bridges communications between an offline retail machine with a short-range communication capability and a remote server by obtaining via the first transceiver a single-use request code from an information packet broadcast by the offline retail machine; transmitting via the second transceiver the single-use request code to a remote server; obtaining via the second transceiver from the remote server a grant token including the single-use request code; detecting a trigger condition for initiating provision of a product or service by the offline retail machine; and in response to detecting the trigger condition, initiating performance of the provision of the product or service by transmitting the grant token to the offline retail machine via the first transceiver.
US12248936B2
Methods and systems described herein may implement blockchain cryptocurrency transactions in a variety of environments. An online transaction processor may provide operations for user activity detection for locking cryptocurrency conversions. The transaction processor may detect used activities for a user online or at a physical location and determine that those activities indicate that the user will engage in electronic transaction processing at an upcoming time. The transaction processor may determine that the user has available cryptocurrency and may want to convert at least a portion of the cryptocurrency to another currency for the electronic transaction processing. Using a cryptocurrency exchange, the transaction processor may determine a price to convert the cryptocurrency to the other currency and may lock that price for a time period for the user. A notification may be transmitted to the user with a user interface element to accept this offer.
US12248926B2
An automated teller machine (ATM) has a display and a wireless communication interface. The ATM may detect a proximity of a mobile computing device and exhibit on its display an indication of the proximity of mobile computing device to the ATM. The ATM may also be configured to detect when the mobile computing device and the ATM have established a wireless communication connection and display a visual cue on the display that the wireless connection has been established. The ATM is configured to synchronize the display of the ATM with a display of the mobile computing device. The displays may be synched temporally and positionally and may display the same or related content, such as an image or animation at the same time.
US12248920B2
An intelligent shelf management system and operating method are revealed. The system includes an operating and display device by which users input their demands of goods; an information module electrically connected to the operating and display device and comprising a database of goods and an analysis module which receives and analyzes the demands of goods input and finds out product information matched after comparison with information in the database; a content management system electrically connected to the information module and receiving the product information from the analysis module; and a point-of-sale system having a plurality pieces of related sales information and electrically connected to the content management system or the information module. The content management system compares the product information with the plurality pieces of related sales information to collect and send the related sales information matched to the operating and display device.
US12248919B2
A method and system for providing a connected sales associate service application via a mobile device. The application provides for an integrated platform upon which various tools for providing support to a sales associate are built. The application includes a database of information regarding the operation of a retail establishment, and a database of reference materials. The application provides a user interface for allowing several sales associate to access a central server for the retail establishment on multiple mobile devices. The user interface displays information regarding sales and inventory information and reference materials for products, such as user's manuals, which enable the sales associate to answer questions posed by customers. A sales associate can thus search for and find all store products which meet a customer's specifications.
US12248900B2
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of systems and methods for quality monitoring of pallets of goods (e.g., fresh seafood, other perishable goods, nonperishable goods, etc.) in a cargo.
US12248898B2
Embodiments are directed to managing courses. Course information for a course may be provided. Skill terms may be determined for the course based on the course information and skill models. Candidate skills may be determined based on the skill terms and a unified skill dictionary such that the skill terms may be mapped to the candidate skills based on the unified skill dictionary. A summary of the course information and the candidate skills may be displayed to a subject matter expert. if the subject matter expert confirms that a candidate skill may be taught by the course, the candidate skill may be associated with a course profile for the course that includes the confirmed candidate skills and proficiency scores for the confirmed skills.
US12248894B2
A supplemental safety system (10) and a method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system (10) a safety site plan (18) of a site and a safety site schedule (20) for the site are utilized. The safety site plan (18) includes a site plan of the site augmented with locationing information for work with a project geofence (58) therearound. The safety site schedule (20) for the site includes a work schedule for the site augmented with schedule data relative to a project pre-work phase (72), a project work phase (74), and a project post-work phase (76). The safety site plan (18) and the safety site schedule (20) are utilized to provide safety as a project advances from project pre-work (72) to project work (74) to post- work (76).
US12248889B2
One example method includes accessing a dataset, selecting a list of attributes of the dataset, each of the attributes being selected based on a determination that the attribute is affecting growth of the dataset and affecting an amount of data storage space consumed by the dataset, assigning a SHAP score to each attribute, using the SHAP scores to assign respective weights to each attribute, deriving drift and shock information for the dataset, and based on the drift and shock information, calculating a risk score that a storage capacity of an asset where the dataset is stored will be exhausted within a particular time interval.
US12248884B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for knowledge graph construction, storage medium and electronic device. The method for knowledge graph construction, comprises: identifying an entity concept from a title text of a target web page and at least one entity corresponding to the entity concept from a body text of the target web page; constructing a syntax parse tree of the title text based on syntax parse rules of a language to which the title text belongs, and determining, from the syntax parse tree, a modifier for modifying the entity concept; and generating a knowledge graph based on the entity concept, the modifier, and the at least one entity. Through the solution of the present disclosure, knowledge graphs with high accuracy and high recall rates are constructed without structured processing on target web pages.
US12248876B1
A network threat intelligence relational triple combined extraction method based on deep learning includes: (a) an entity and a relation are both extracted by using a combined extraction method, which solves the problem of a lack of interaction between entity and relation extraction tasks; (b) a problem of entity overlapping is solved by using a method based on a span; (c) a BERT large-scale pre-training model is used for vector representation of a text; and because the pre-training model includes contextual information learned from a large-scale corpus, semantic expression on a threat intelligence text by the model can be extremely enriched; and (d) various modal information, for example, time sequences, dependency relations, the spans, labels, and the like, is fused to enhance the interaction between multimodal information.
US12248871B2
The present invention relates to methods of sparsifying signals over time in multi-bit spiking neural networks, methods of training and converting these networks by interpolating between spiking and non-spiking regimes, and their efficient implementation in digital hardware. Four algorithms are provided that encode signals produced by nonlinear functions, spiking neuron models, supplied as input to the network, and any linear combination thereof, as multi-bit spikes that may be compressed and adaptively scaled in size, in order to balance metrics including the desired accuracy of the network and the available energy in hardware.
US12248866B2
A convolutional neural network (CNN) system for generating a classification for an input image is presented. The CNN system comprises circuitry running on clock cycles and configured to compute a product of two received values, and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions for the circuitry to derive a feature map based on at least the input image; puncture at least one selection among the feature map and a kernel by setting the value of an element at an index of the at least one selection to zero and cyclic shifting a puncture pattern to achieve a 1/d reduction in number of clock cycles, where d is an integer and puncture interval value >1. The feature map is convolved with the kernel to generate an output, and a classification of the input image is generated based on the output.
US12248865B2
Systems and methods for machine learning architecture for time series data prediction. The system may include a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions. The processor-executable instructions, when executed, may configure the processor to: obtain time series data associated with a data query; generate a predicted value based on a sampled realization of the time series data and a continuous time generative model, the continuous time generative model trained to define an invertible mapping to maximize a log-likelihood of a set of predicted values for a time range associated with the time series data; and generate a signal providing an indication of the predicted value associated with the data query.
US12248852B2
Various systems and methods implement a decision architecture for autonomous systems. An autonomous system framework includes a safety ring configured to interface with safety features of an autonomous system; a security ring configured to provide authentication and verification services to transactions passed through the security ring; a privacy ring configured to ensure privacy of a user of the autonomous system; a trustworthiness ring configured to log and provide transparency of transactions passed through the trustworthiness ring; and a well-being ring configured to interface with the user and provide feedback and information to the user on a state of the autonomous system, wherein: each of the safety, security, privacy, trustworthiness, and well-being rings include at least one interface to at least one other of the safety, security, privacy, trustworthiness, and well-being rings.
US12248850B2
A quantum device includes several spin qubits arranged as a matrix and each comprising a quantum dot; several electrometers each electrostatically coupled to a potential well of one of the quantum dots; and circuits for applying an excitation signal to an input electrode of each electrometer. The circuits are configured such that a value of the frequency, phase or maximum amplitude of each excitation signal is different from that of the other excitation signals, and the circuits apply a same excitation signal on electrometers coupled to a same row of qubits. The device also includes a transimpedance amplifier having an input coupled to output electrodes of the electrometers and a demultiplexing circuit including an input electrically coupled to an output of the transimpedance amplifier and configured to demultiplex the output signals to be delivered by the electrometers.
US12248849B2
Computational systems and methods employ characteristics of a quantum processor determined or sampled between a start and an end of an annealing evolution per an annealing schedule. The annealing evolution can be reinitialized, reversed or continued after determination. The annealing evolution can be interrupted. The annealing evolution can be ramped immediately prior to or as part of determining the characteristics. The annealing evolution can be paused or not paused immediately prior to ramping. A second representation of a problem can be generated based at least in part on the determined characteristics from an annealing evolution performed on a first representation of the problem. The determined characteristics can be autonomously compared to an expected behavior, and alerts optionally provided and/or the annealing evolution optionally terminated based on the comparison. Iterations of annealing evolutions may be performed until an exit condition occurs.
US12248846B1
Devices, systems, and methods for operating an indicia reader. An example system includes an imaging assembly, at least one processor and memory storing instructions that cause the processor to: capture and store in memory one or more images comprising image data; generate one or more lower resolution images comprising lower resolution image data corresponding to the one or more images; analyze the lower resolution image data to detect an object of interest; in response to detecting the object of interest and having the object meet a predetermined condition, determine a region of interest in the one or more lower resolution images corresponding to the object; access the one or more images from memory; generate cropped image data by cropping the one or more images to include the region of interest; analyze the cropped image data to determine information corresponding to the object; and transmit a message to a host.
US12248840B2
A reader includes a smartphone configured to read information from an image of a symbol included in a photographed image created by a camera module, and a unit attached to the smartphone. The unit includes a semiconductor laser to display a marker in a photographing range of the camera module. A user simply adjusts the orientation of the reader so that the marker overlaps on the symbol for reading processing of the smartphone, whereby information can be read from the symbol.
US12248838B2
A recyclable RFID device having one or more recoverable components configured to remain substantially intact during a waste recycling process. The one or more recoverable components comprises a RFID coupling strap and a substrate encapsulating the RFID coupling strap. A filtering system for recovering the recyclable RFID device from a waste stream is also disclosed, and comprises a waste collection container, a RFID device detection unit, and a RFID device diversion area. Additionally, a filtering system for recovering the recyclable RFID device during a waste recycling process is disclosed. The filtering system enables separating the recyclable RFID device from a packaging and detecting the separated components of the recyclable RFID device including the one or more recoverable components. The separated components including the RFID chip is then diverted from the waste stream for reuse.
US12248832B2
A card, system, and method for validating a user's identity with card image steganography are provided. The system includes a card, a user device, and a processor. The card comprises a face with a steganographic pattern encrypted onto its substrate. The processor is configured to receive a request associated with the card, recognize the biometric data from the steganographic pattern on the card, and verify the user's identity by matching the user's biometric to the card's biometric.
US12248826B2
A system and a method directed to various techniques for creating an autonomous multipurpose application using a platform of application programming interfaces (APIs). In one embodiment, a method comprising operations performed by a cognitive intelligence platform is disclosed. The method includes: publishing, for implementation in the autonomous multipurpose application, at least one API that uses artificial intelligence to perform analytics based on a knowledge graph pertaining to ontological data of a medical condition, wherein the at least one API is included in a set of APIs; providing the at least one API in a user interface of a computing device; receiving, from the computing device, a request to subscribe to the at least one API; implementing computer instructions of the at least one API in the autonomous multipurpose application; and providing the autonomous multipurpose application to the computing device for execution on the computing device.
US12248825B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for processing of event data real time in an electronic communication via an artificial intelligence engine. The present invention is configured to electronically receive an electronic communication from a user to an entity, identify event data associated with the user, identify an inflection level and a language attribution level from the electronic communication by processing the electronic communication with an input recognition engine, form a categorization level by categorizing the electronic communication comprising the inflection level and the language attribution level using an artificial intelligence engine, and route the electronic communication to a designated group containing users associated with the entity and/or an artificial intelligence-based dialogue resolution.
US12248823B2
Methods, computer readable media, and devices for dynamic personalized API assembly are provided. One method may include receiving a data query from a client by a CDN, parsing the data query to generate a modified data query, transmitting the modified data query to an origin server, receiving a content from the origin server, generating a modified content based on the content, and sending the modified content to the client. Another method may include receiving an API call by an origin server, generating an API response by creating a payload file and adding markup directives indicating whether content is cacheable, and transmitting the API response.
US12248806B2
In one embodiment, an operating system of a computing system determines, by an application instance manager of the operating system, that a first instance corresponding to a first application is to be activated according to an instance database managed by the operating system, where the first application includes several application components, including the first instance and a presenter. The application instance manager invokes the first instance and the presenter, the presenter being managed by the first instance. The operating system determines that the presenter is configured to present data obtained by a data provider, the data provider being one of several application components of a second application. The data provider accesses data from a data store and populates a dataset defined by the second application. The presenter of the first application generates a user interface to present the data from the dataset defined by the second application.
US12248792B2
A compute server receives a request that triggers execution of a code piece out of multiple code pieces. A single process at the compute server executes the code piece, which is run in an isolated execution environment. Each other code piece runs in other isolated execution environments respectively and executed by the single process. The code piece, when executed, modifies a response to the request. The response is generated based at least in part on the executed code piece. The generated response is transmitted.
US12248776B2
A terminal control program according to the present disclosure causes a terminal apparatus to perform: receiving model information and version information that have been automatically transmitted from a fishing electric reel in response to a first request transmitted according to a user's operation; storing a reel control program of a latest version of the fishing electric reel of a model indicated by the model information; transmitting the reel control program of the latest version to the fishing electric reel, in a case where a version indicated by the received version information does not match the latest version; and changing a screen for setting or displaying reel information to the screen that corresponds to the reel control program of the latest version.
US12248770B1
Various embodiments described herein support or provide for data communication using hardware serialization and deserialization functions, such as identifying definition data that defines structured data for transmission from a first electronic device to a second electronic device; generating a description file based on the definition data and using a compiler to generate, based on the description file, a plurality of hardware parameters and to generate source code defining a class that incorporates the structured data.
US12248766B2
An online software development platform providing an integrated resource for design, development, and purchase of customer-desired software applications for software projects created by customers. The platform comprising one or more computers configured using computer readable instructions stored in non-transitory computer memory to provide the software development platform, wherein the software development platform is configured to implement a plurality of electronic operational domains providing user-interactive capabilities or internal functionalities of the software development platform. The domains comprising a project scope process, a pricing process, and a project development process. The platform is configured to use a configuration involving knowledge graph to recommend features.
US12248762B2
A processing-in-memory device includes a data storage region and an arithmetic circuit. The data storage region includes a first memory bank in which first data is divided into a first portion and a second portion and stored, and a second memory bank in which second data is divided into a first portion and a second portion and stored. The arithmetic circuit performs multiplication/accumulation operations on the first data and the second data and outputs final MAC result data.
US12248745B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.
US12248744B2
Poly-bit cells and methods for forming the same are provided. In one example, a method for forming a poly-bit cell includes identifying layouts in a library of single-bit cells having one or more of a different functionality and a different drive that are combinable; storing, in memory, layouts that are combinable; and creating layouts of poly-bit cells from the stored combinable single-bit cells. Each poly-bit cell combined from layouts of at least two single-bit cells has one or more of a different functionality and a different drive.
US12248743B2
Various implementations described herein refer to a method. The method may be configured to synthesize standard cells for a physical design having a power supply net with power supply rails. The method may be configured to employ a place-and-route tool so as to define edge-types for each standard cell of the standard cells in the physical design based on the power supply net and the power supply rails that touch at least one edge of each standard cell of the standard cells.
US12248740B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving design and/or engineering data (D/E data) corresponding to a prototype representation of a product and transmitting one or more inputs derived from the D/E data to one or more digital engineering tools for processing. The method also includes receiving engineering-related data outputs from the one or more digital engineering tools and receiving data corresponding to one or more common validation and verification (V&V products). The method further includes identifying one or more requirements for the product based on the data corresponding to the one or more common V&V products; determining whether or not the one or more requirements have been satisfied; and presenting information corresponding to the engineering-related data outputs and/or the data corresponding to the one or more common V&V products. The method also includes receiving instructions from the user device, and performing one or more manipulations of the D/E data.
US12248739B2
Provided is a configuration which enables behaviors to be comprehensively simulated even for a system where a certain external force is applied to a workpiece. This simulation device includes: a first simulator that calculates behaviors of one or more workpieces disposed in a virtual space; a measurement part that carries out measurement for a virtual image generated by imaging the virtual space by a virtual camera disposed at an arbitrarily-defined viewpoint position in the virtual space; a second simulator that calculates, on the basis of an operation command generated in response to the measuring result of the workpieces by the measurement part, a behavior of a robot for conveying the workpieces disposed in the virtual space; and an image generation part that generates an image in which the virtual space is visualized.
US12248731B2
A bitstream is obtained by a decoder side, that contains an encoded version of an audio signal and an instantaneous loudness sequence of the audio signal. The instantaneous loudness sequence has not been loudness normalized. A dynamic range control, DRC, gain sequence is produced by applying the instantaneous loudness sequence to a DRC characteristic, with loudness normalization. The DRC gain sequence is applied to the decoded audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US12248724B2
An enhanced video call method is provided, including: A first electronic device establishes a video call with a second electronic device; if the first electronic device detects a first operation of a user on the screen sharing control, the first electronic device sends, to the second electronic device, a first request for sharing a screen of the first electronic device; and if the first request is agreed to by the second electronic device, the first electronic device displays a shared interface in a second display area of the first electronic device, and the first electronic device sends display data of the shared interface of the first electronic device to the second electronic device.
US12248722B2
The present invention provides an image correction system configured on an electronic device, which outputs an image to a display screen and stores at least one image regression application unit; the at least one image regression application unit at least comprises a tilt correction element and an aspect correction element and is used to extract an original image captured image and generated tilt angle information from one or more image information carriers, to output a new pixel position based on tilt angle information of a gravity angle sensor, and to perform image aspect ratio correction, so as to obtain a result of regressing a horizontal tilt angle of a minimum complete image when an image capture device is tilted and maintaining the aspect ratio, thereby enabling an image record to be regressed to horizontal, non-truncated, and consistent with the aspect ratio of an original image.
US12248720B2
A system obtains a measured temperature of a fixing unit that fixes an applied agent applied on a print medium to the print medium by heat and identifies a print job whose temperature to be set associated with a type of print media to be used is closest to the measured temperature among a plurality of print jobs that are saved in a first saving unit and are yet to be identified. The temperature to be set is a temperature associated with each type of printing medium as the temperature to be set in the fixing unit when fixing. In addition, a printing control unit executes printing of the plurality of print jobs so that among the plurality of print jobs, an identified first print job or a print job for which a same type of print medium as the first print job is to be used is processed first.
US12248717B2
A management device for managing machine troubles includes a controller that: generates display information in which production timeline information of one or a plurality of jobs and information on errors of the one or a plurality of jobs are associated with each other; and outputs the display information. The production timeline information includes one or a plurality of pieces of production timeline information of the one or a plurality of jobs. The information on errors includes one or a plurality of pieces of error-related information each associated with a corresponding one of the one or a plurality of pieces of production timeline information. In the display information, the one or a plurality of pieces of production timeline information are arranged along one of a vertical axis and a horizontal axis and the one or a plurality of pieces of error-related information are arranged along the other axis.
US12248714B2
Method for a printing system for processing a print job comprising the print data and the plurality of print job settings. Automatically an area of the recording medium is established that is deemed to be removed or made invisible during the at least one finishing action by a finisher. A digital object is retrieved from memory of the printer which is used for checking and monitoring at least one characterization of the desired end product. The print data are printed and also the digital object is printed at the automatically established area.
US12248711B2
A storage device configured to be connected to a redundant array of inexpensive disk (RAID) controller includes a plurality of non-volatile memories. A memory controller is configured to control the plurality of non-volatile memories to store data distributed by the RAID controller based on a RAID configuration signal received from the RAID controller. The memory controller is configured to perform self-diagnosis on the plurality of non-volatile memories to determine whether at least one of the plurality of non-volatile memories has an uncorrectable error when a RAID configuration signal is deactivated.
US12248707B2
Disclosed is a write method comprising a step in which a storage device determines an execution order between received first and second write commands, and executes the first write command and the second write command according to the determined execution order. The first write command comprises first stream identification information having {first stream ID, first epoch ID}, the second write command comprises second stream identification information having {second stream ID, second epoch ID}, and when the first stream ID and the second stream ID are different from each other, the execution order is determined without using the result of comparison between the first epoch ID and the second epoch ID.
US12248704B2
A data storage device comprising a non-volatile storage medium configured to store data, a data port configured to receive and transmit data between a host computer system and the data storage device and a controller. The controller is configured to receive, via the data port, a first command data structure comprising a status reporting activation and receive, via the data port, a second command data structure. In response to receiving the second command data structure, the controller is configured to, determine a response information associated with the second command data structure, and in response to the status reporting activation, determine a status information, and transmit, via the data port, a response data structure comprising the response information and the status information.
US12248700B2
A storage system includes a host and a storage device. The host includes a host processor and a host memory buffer, wherein the host processor includes a CPU core controlling operation of the host and a cache dedicated for use by the CPU core. The host memory buffer includes a submission queue and a completion queue. The storage device is connected to the host through a link and communicates with the host using a transaction layer packet (TLP). The storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device (NVM) and a storage controller, wherein the host writes a nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) command indicating a destination to the submission queue, and the storage controller reads data from the NVM, directly accesses the cache in response to destination information associated with the destination, and stores the read data in the cache.
US12248697B2
A first page read on the first memory page utilizing a first trim value is performed responsive to initiating a memory page scan on a first memory page of a plurality of memory pages. Whether a first data state metric associated with the first page read satisfies a first threshold criterion is determined. A second page read on the first memory page utilizing a second trim value is performed responsive to determining that the first data state metric satisfies the first threshold criterion. Whether a second data state metric associated with the second page read satisfies a second threshold criterion is determined. The second trim value to perform subsequent page reads during memory page scans is selected responsive to determining that the second data state metric does not satisfy the first threshold criterion.
US12248695B2
An operation method includes buffering data chunks to be programmed in the multi-level cells in a write buffer; backing up at least one backup data chunk of the data chunks to a backup memory; determining a program sequence of the data chunks, the program sequence for programming a non-backup data chunk among the data chunks to the multi-level cells through a second step program operation of the multi-step program operation; and controlling the memory device to program the data chunks in the multi-level cells, based on the program sequence, by performing first and second step program operations of the multi-step program operation in a first page of the multi-level cells, the second step program operation performed in the first page later than another first step program operation performed in a second page subsequent to the first page.
US12248678B2
A method includes: generating a machine learning model based on historical operation data of the storage system, the storage system being used for backing up and restoring data in a client. The method further includes: determining, by the machine learning model, input/output (I/O) utilization of the storage system for a future time period. The method further includes: determining, in response to determining that the I/O utilization exceeds a predetermined threshold at a first time instance in the future, an I/O capacity corresponding to the determined I/O utilization based on the determined I/O utilization. The method further includes: adjusting the performance of the storage system based on the determined I/O capacity. The embodiments of the present disclosure enable more effective resolution of the I/O spike problem without interrupting data backup or restoration services.
US12248673B2
Systems and methods for attributing a scroll event are described herein. The system can provide, to a client device, an infinite scroll attribution script. The script can cause the client device to set a dimension of an inline frame, embedded with a content document, of an page to a dimension corresponding to a viewport of an application and determine, responsive to detecting a scroll event, that a first offset between a first content document end and a first viewport end is less than or equal to a first predetermined threshold. The script can further cause the client device to determine, responsive to detecting the scroll event, that a second offset between a second content document end and a second viewport end is greater than or equal to a second threshold and assign the scroll event to the inline frame responsive to the determinations of the first and second offsets.
US12248671B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to user interfaces and systems that may enable dynamic and interactive access of, investigation of, and analysis of data objects stored in one or more databases. The data objects may be accessed from the one or more databases, and presented in multiple related portions of a display. In particular, the system provides a time-based visualization of data objects (and/or properties associated with the data objects) to a user such that the user may, for example, determine connections between various data objects, observe flows of information among data objects, and/or investigate related data objects.
US12248652B1
A system, apparatus, and method directed to a process for creating audio, video, or audio-video content in a browser application executing on a client device. In some embodiments, a web-based editing canvas enables a user to create a custom image, set of images, or video by adding audio, video, image, and other forms of “nodes” to a “canvas”, and allowing the user to modify the nodes and then compile them into an image or video.
US12248651B2
A touch substrate and a display device are disclosed. The touch substrate has a folding line, the touch substrate including a touch region and a non-touch region. The non-touch region includes a first non-touch region, a second non-touch region, and a third non-touch region between the first non-touch region and the second non-touch region. The touch substrate includes: multiple first electrode groups; multiple second electrode groups; a touch integrated circuit in the third non-touch region; multiple first sub-electrode group connecting lines in the first non-touch region; and a shielded line.
US12248650B2
A touch structure includes first touch electrodes with first electrode blocks and an adapter bridge and second touch electrodes with second electrode blocks, first and second touch electrodes are grid-shaped structures with grid lines, and the grid lines of the adapter bridge and the first and second electrode blocks are adapter lines and channel lines; the adapter bridge is connected to a guide portion overlapping with channel line(s) of a boundary of the first electrode block or the second touch electrode, partial adapter line overlaps with partial channel line of a boundary of the first electrode block and/or the second touch electrode; the adapter line connected to the guide portion overlaps with partial channel line of the boundary of the first electrode block or the second touch electrode; at least partial edge of orthographic projection of the guide portion is outside edge of orthographic projection of the channel line.
US12248647B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of control signal lines, a plurality of first reading signal lines, and a plurality of second reading signal lines. The plurality of control signal lines are disposed on a first surface of the substrate and spaced from each other. The plurality of first reading signal lines are disposed on a second surface of the substrate and spaced from each other. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The plurality of second reading signal lines are disposed on the first surface of the substrate. Each of the plurality of second reading signal lines is located between adjacent two of the plurality of control signal lines. An electronic device including the above touch panel is also provided.
US12248644B2
A circuit arrangement for a touch sensor includes a plurality of capacitive sensors, an ADC, a switch arrangement, and a controller. The capacitive sensors measure over a respective sampling period for detecting a touch event on a surface and provide an output. The ADC receives the output and determines a digital value over a conversion period. The switch arrangement selectively provides the output from the capacitive sensors to the ADC. The controller activates a first capacitive sensor to measure the capacitance for detecting a touch event, and activates a second capacitive sensor for detecting a touch event such that the respective sampling periods are at least partly concurrent. The controller also controls the switch arrangement to cause the ADC to receive the output of the first capacitive sensor after its sampling time and receive the output of the second capacitive sensor after its sampling time.
US12248640B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for dynamic word prediction and suggestion. The method includes an AI engine configured to render a touch-enabled keyboard interface on a display unit of the electronic device, identify a plurality of elements of an input message of a user on a messaging application and transform the input message into an array of a specific numbers based on the plurality of elements. The method further includes converting the array into a 2D matrix of embeddings by the AI engine, wherein the embeddings include semantic information of the input message to identify a context of the input message and converting the matrix into an output array with a changed dimension. The AI engine is further configured to convert the output array into probabilities of one or more words corresponding to the input message of the user on the messaging application.
US12248635B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a sensory augmentation system. In some examples, the sensory augmentation system includes a first electro-tactile stimulator comprising at least one user interaction element driven by a driver and contactable to a human body to provide stimulation having a first stimulation waveform and a signal generation and sensing processor configured to receive data corresponding to information to be communicated to the user. The signal generation and sensing processor may generate a first instruction to the driver, the first instruction corresponding to the first stimulation waveform. The driver may generate the stimulation having the first stimulation waveform in response to the first instruction.
US12248624B1
A display apparatus includes eye-tracking means; display device(s); and processor(s) The processor is configured to process eye-tracking data collected by the eye-tracking means, to detect beginning time (T1) of a saccade (S) of user's eyes; control the display device(s) to display convoluted image for first time period (P1) during saccade (S); predict saccade end time (T2), wherein the first time period (P1) ends before the predicted saccade end time (T2); control the display device(s) to display the convoluted image for second time period (P2) starting before the predicted saccade end time (T2) to extend saccade until extended saccade end time (T3); and control the display device(s) to display an output image (402) after the second time period (P2), wherein the output image is an unconvoluted image.
US12248620B2
Systems and methods for obtaining metrics relating to an extended reality experience and using the obtained metrics to perform remedial actions, such as managing user motion sickness, determining user performance relating to a designed game difficulty, and performing home automation are disclosed. The methods include determining a starting and ending checkpoint in an extended reality experience. Data from a plurality of users as they navigate between the determined checkpoints is obtained and used to determine a metric, such as a median, average, or other representative data. The current user's navigation through the same checkpoints is monitored and compared with the metric. The results from the comparison are used to enhance extended reality experience, which includes customizing the experience for motion sickness, game difficulty level, and home automation.
US12248616B2
Systems and methods of dynamic management of private data during communication between a remote server and a user's device, including receipt of a request for retrieval of at least one data packet from the user's device, wherein the user's device is configured to provide a response corresponding to the received request, determination of at least one communication data type of the at least one data packet corresponding to the received request, receipt of a privacy preference for the user's device, wherein the privacy preference comprises a list of allowed data packet communication types for sharing during communication, modification of data packets corresponding to requests for sharing of responses that are not compatible with the received privacy preference and maintenance of communication between the remote server and the user's device, with sharing of the modified data packet.
US12248607B2
A system provides for a client to receive enhancement data without having personally identifiable information leave its systems. The system receives access to a client configuration and a data graph to perform configuration defined filtering and aggregation steps to produce a set of client files. These files contain a hashed version of PII from the data graph. They are then used by the client to match the identity of its population of objects to keys, the keys also being included in the set of client files. The client associates corresponding keys with objects in its own data graph, then requests enhancement data using only the keys. The data is returned using the matched keys without the use of personally identifiable information.
US12248603B2
Techniques for sanitizing personally identifiable information (PII) from audio and visual data are provided. For instance, in a scenario where the data comprises an audio signal with speech uttered by a person P, these techniques can include removing/obfuscating/transforming speech-related PII in the audio signal such as pitch and acoustic cues associated with P's vocal tract shape and/or vocal actuators (e.g., lips, nasal air bypass, teeth, tongue, etc.) while allowing the content of the speech to remain recognizable. Further, in a scenario where the data comprises a still image or video in which a person P appears, these techniques can include removing/obfuscating/transforming visual PII in the image or video such as P's biological features and indicators of P's location/belongings/data while allowing the general nature of the image or video to remain discernable. Through this PII sanitization process, the privacy of individuals portrayed in the audio or visual data can be preserved.
US12248592B2
Persistence can be enabled in a volatile secure workspace. A management service may be configured to provide a managed application image containing a managed application to a host agent on a user computing device. When a secure workspace is deployed on the user computing device, the host agent can attach the managed application image to the secure workspace to create an injected volume. The host agent can also provide image details of the managed application image to a file system filter in the secure workspace. The file system filter may cause the managed application to be loaded from the managed application image and may then redirect I/O performed by the managed application to the injected volume which in turn will cause such I/O to be persisted in the managed application image. In this way, the managed application, any files it creates or modifies, and any state will be persisted even though the secure workspace is volatile.
US12248590B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a document server, a document from a document owner node, the document contains restricted access segments, splitting, by the document server, the document into a plurality of ledger entries to be stored on a blockchain, updating, by the document server, a ledger entry of the plurality of the ledger entries based on a proposed change to the document made by an authorized participant node, committing, by the document server, the ledger entry to the blockchain based on votes collected from a plurality of participant nodes, and sending a notification to a set of participating nodes of the plurality of the participant nodes authorized to view the document.
US12248583B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products that provide a unique platform for analyzing, classifying, extracting, and dialogue information from audio file recordings between a customer and an agent of an entity. In particular, the novel present invention provides a unique platform for analyzing, classifying, extracting, and processing information from call recordings using an image-based encryption method and cognitive neural engine in order to segment audio files according to speaker, and later analyze recording information to generate contextual inferences regarding user preferences and agent performance.
US12248577B2
A method of provisioning a self-provisioning computer system is disclosed. The method includes executing code in a secure base activation image to perform various functions. This includes executing an identification process, using a cryptographically created identifier included in the base activation image, with an activation service to confirm an identity of the computer system with the activation service. This further includes confirming system integrity of the computer system with the activation service. Based on confirming the identity of the computer system and confirming system integrity of the computer system, The computer system is unlocked for load installation. Load installation is performed by providing capabilities for the computer system to the activation service and receiving the load based on the provided capabilities.
US12248576B2
Embodiments of this application provide a face recognition method and apparatus, including: obtaining TOF data; processing the TOF data into a TOF image in a TEE; and performing face recognition by using the TOF image, to obtain a recognition result. Because the TOF data is used for face recognition, higher security is achieved. Implementation in the TEE can further improve the security.
US12248574B1
A method provides a set of computer data statistical profiles derived from a corresponding set of samples of computer data to a ransomware detection system and obtains a prediction of the likelihood of a ransomware attack in the set of samples of computer data. The system utilizes a machine learning system trained to achieve data models, with each model trained initially on a corresponding cluster of curated computer data statistics profiles, each cluster including statistics characterizing a corresponding cluster of curated samples resulting from exposing a selection of raw data samples to processing by actual ransomware. Each model is subject to iterations against initial validation data until performance convergences, with sample sources from the same backups not being present in both training and validation models. The models have been subject to final validation against actual customer data to address data drift that would otherwise result in excessive false predictions.
US12248561B2
Apparatus and method for role-based register protection. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: one or more processor cores to execute instructions and process data, the one or more processor cores to execute one or more security instructions to protect a virtual machine or trusted application from a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or operating system (OS); an interconnect fabric to couple the one or more processor cores to a device; and security hardware logic to determine whether to allow a read or write transaction directed to a protected register to proceed over the interconnect fabric, the security hardware logic to evaluate one or more security attributes associated with an initiator of the transaction to make the determination.
US12248560B2
A security agent configured to initiate a security agent component as a hypervisor for a computing device is described herein. The security agent component may change a value of a processor configuration register, such as a Model Specific Register (MSR), in order to cause system calls to be redirected to the security agent, and may set an intercept for instructions for performing read operations on the processor configuration register so that a process, thread, or component different from the processor of the computing device may receive the original value of the processor configuration register instead of an updated value of the processor configuration register. The security agent component may also be configured to generate interrupts to offload task execution from the hypervisor to a security agent executing as a kernel-level component.
US12248557B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically controlling access and limiting functionality of a computer workstation based on which user is currently logged in. In some implementations, an overwatch application is installed on the workstations to be controlled and monitored. If an authorized, but limited, user logs in, the overwatch application can initiate a lockdown process on the workstation. In some instances, the lockdown process is managed by a dedicated lockdown application, which is initiated or notified from the overwatch application, and which can initiate a lockdown of particular applications, functionality, and allowed interactions on the workstation until the limited user has completed their task and a new user logs in.
US12248552B2
An improved authentication, identification, and/or verification system is provided in various embodiments. The system is provided for use in relation to provisioning access or establishing identity in relation to one or more human users, and may be used in a single site/scenario/system, or across multiple sites/scenarios/systems. A combination of biometric modalities and authentication mechanisms having diverse characteristics are utilized to establish identity, the diverse characteristics being utilized to modify aspects of identity management and access provisioning.
US12248547B2
Provided is to prevent a false determination due to an attachment condition of an apparatus that transmits and receives an acoustic signal, and perform accurate personal authentication. A personal authentication device includes: a personal authentication means that authenticates an individual by using first information at least including an acoustic characteristic calculated from an acoustic signal propagating through the head of the user, which is detected by an apparatus being attached on a head of a user for transmitting and receiving the acoustic signal, and a feature amount extracted from the acoustic characteristic; an attachment trouble rule storage means that stores an attachment trouble rule for detecting an attachment trouble with the apparatus; and an attachment trouble detection means that detects a trouble with an attachment state of the apparatus when the first information satisfies the attachment trouble rule.
US12248545B1
Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for secure digital authorization via generated datasets. The techniques include receiving a first dataset of a first user and a second dataset of a second user and generating a first set of identity elements and a second set of identity elements based on the first dataset and the second dataset, respectively. A linkage definition can be generated based on the first and second datasets, which can be associated with a set of activation elements. The techniques include determining that a set of inputs satisfy one or more of the set of activation elements and, in response, generating a set of security access tokens based on the linkage condition. The security access tokens can be transmitted to a computing device upon analyzing and verifying biometric data received from that computing device.
US12248540B2
An information processing device includes: a hardware processor that executes a license check of software, wherein the hardware processor detects a request for remote access to the software, extracts a description about remote access from a license agreement of the software to which a request for remote access is requesting access, and determines, based on the extracted description about the remote access, whether the remote access is a license violation.
US12248539B2
A computer-implemented method (100) and system (1) for determining a metadata M for securing a controlled digital resource such as computer software using a distributed hash table (13) and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14). This is a blockchain such as the Bitcoin blockchain. The method includes determining (110) a data associated with the computer software and determining (120) a first hash value based on the computer software. A second hash value based on the data and the computer software may be determined (130). The method further includes sending 140, over a communications network (5), the data, the first hash value and the second hash value to an entry for storage in a distributed hash table (13). The second hash value may be a key of a key-value pair. The data and the first hash value may be a value in the key-value pair. A metadata (M) that is based on the second hash value may be determined (150) for storage on the peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14).
US12248529B2
Techniques of generating short answers for queries by a search engine include performing a training operation on a corpus of training data to train the score prediction engine, the corpus of training data including candidate passages providing short answers for display in callouts and remaining respective passages, from which a top scoring short answer is generated. In such implementations, the corpus of training data further includes the remaining respective passages and the respective titles of the candidate passage and remaining respective passages.
US12248524B2
A system and method for monitoring and optimizing work assistant search engines implemented within secured enterprise computing systems include one or more processing devices to receive diagnostic data of a work assistant search engine from a secured enterprise computing system. The one or more processing devices may further determine, by analyzing the diagnostic data, a search quality metric value associated with the feature values and the scores. Responsive to determining that the search quality metric value differs from a target search quality metric value by a predetermined threshold value, the one or more processing devices may further determine an updated score model, and provide the updated score model to the secured enterprise computing system to update the work assistant search engine.
US12248520B2
The information processing system includes a classification unit, an acquisition unit, a selection unit, an evaluation unit, and a generation unit. The classification unit classifies a plurality of fragrances into segments defined corresponding to a combination of one of first classification items on a first classification axis with one of second classification items on a second classification axis. The acquisition unit accepts input of information related to the first classification axis from the target person. The selection unit determines one of the first classification items based on the information and selects a fragrance for evaluation from each of segments that correspond to the first classification item and whose second classification items differ from each other. The evaluation unit acquires, for each of the fragrances for evaluation, evaluation information of a scent from the target person. The generation unit generates information on the fragrance for presentation based on the evaluation information.
US12248518B2
Systems and methods for automatic generation of free-form conversational interfaces are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system receives an input from a user device through a conversational graphical user interface (GUI). An intent of the user may be determined based on the received input. Based on the intent of the user, the system may identify, from a plurality of objects available to the system, one or more objects. Each of the plurality of objects has annotations corresponding to one or more elements of the object and one or more functions of the object. The one or more functions corresponding to the one or more elements are executable to perform an action upon corresponding elements. Based on the identified one or more objects and the annotations of the identified one or more objects, the system may generate a dynamic dialogue flow for the conversational GUI, where the dynamic dialogue flow is generated in real-time during a conversational GUI session.
US12248517B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing method, apparatus, and device for a graph database, and a storage medium. The method includes: after receiving a writing request for first target graph data, determining a B-tree corresponding to each node in the first target graph data, storing graph data of at least one edge type corresponding to the node into a leaf node of the corresponding B-tree, and storing index information of the leaf node into an internal node corresponding to the leaf node in the B-tree; and determining, in a key-value store system, a key-value pair corresponding to the node in the B-tree, storing an index key of the node into a key of the corresponding key-value pair, and storing the graph data or index information stored in the node into a value of the corresponding key-value pair.
US12248516B2
An accelerator device includes a first processing unit to access a structure of a graph dataset, and a second processing unit coupled with the first processing unit to perform computations based on data values in the graph dataset.
US12248509B2
A system and method for managing raw files are disclosed. A plurality of image files associated with one or more raw files that include respective metadata are evaluated. A set of one or more of the images files are grouped together based on matching the respective metadata. An asset file corresponding to the raw file and the grouped set of the image files are generated. The asset file are retrieved in response to a request from a user device. At least one of the image files in the grouped set are selected and a display of the selected image file is generated for rendering.
US12248507B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for content recommendation. A method for content recommendation includes determining a similarity between a first recommendation result and a second recommendation result for a content set. The first recommendation result and the second recommendation result are determined based on different recommendation techniques and respectively indicative of a recommendation degree for each content in the content set. The method further includes adjusting the second recommendation result using the similarity. In addition, the method further includes determining a target recommendation result for the content set based on the first recommendation result and the adjusted second recommendation result. In this manner, the accuracy and stability of the finally obtained recommendation results can be improved.
US12248501B1
Embodiments are directed to surveying security environments. A subject index that includes entries may be generated based on a survey of a content system. A question of a client may be compared to entries in the subject index. A prompt associated with the content system may be generated based on the entries, the data sources, or the question. Query models may be employed to obtain data associated with the question from the data sources. Other prompts may be generated based on the data from the data sources to generate candidate answers based on the question and the data from the data sources. An evaluation prompt that includes the candidate answers and the question may be generated to rank the candidate answers for correctness. Answers may be determined based on the ranking of the candidate questions such that top ranked candidate answers are provided to the client.
US12248497B2
A family tree interface may include a default number of family members in addition to a target node which are expandable upon selection by a user. The default tree interface is expandable by a user vertically to include more generations and laterally. The tree interface includes labels showing a relationship of a tree node to the target node. In some embodiments, one or more family members that have not been rendered may be cached to speed up the visual rendering process. A graphical user interface, in a viewing session, may display an initial view of the family tree associated with the target individual. Upon receipt of an expand request, the viewing session may add the one or more additional family members to generate an expanded view of the family tree. The expanded view may partially adjust the initial view without refreshing the viewing session.
US12248489B2
Techniques for contextualizing utility visualization patterns in a utility infrastructure environment are described herein. A utility meter data dashboard associated with a type of event may be displayed. A selection of a portion of a first utility visualization displayed in the utility meter data dashboard is received, the portion being associated with a subset of utility data. One or more previously used utility visualizations may be determined from among a plurality of additional utility visualizations. One or more candidate utility visualizations associated with the type of event may be determined from among the previously used utility visualizations. A ranked list of one or more candidate utility visualizations may be displayed. A second utility visualization may be displayed based at least in part on a selection from the ranked list.
US12248488B2
Systems and methods provide a system that gathers information about data as it progresses through data processing pipelines of data analysis projects. The data analytics system derives value indicators and implicit metadata from the data processing pipelines. For example, the data analytics system may derive value indicators and implicit metadata from data-related products themselves, semantic analysis of the code/processing steps used to process the data-related products, the structure of data processing pipelines, and human behavior related to production and usage of data-related products. Once a new data analysis project is initiated, the data analytics system gathers parameters and characteristics about the new data analysis project and references the value indicators and implicit metadata to recommend useful processing steps, datasets, and/or other data-related products for the new data analysis project.
US12248487B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for performing efficient key range searches in a distributed computing system. The method may comprise, receiving a first key (e.g., an alphanumeric identifier). A key range tree map associated with the first key may be identified from a plurality of key range tree maps. In some embodiments, individual key range tree maps map a set of minimum range values to a set of index values. The method may further comprise determining an index value associated with a second key using the determined key range tree map. Transaction processing data associated with the first key may be determined using the index value and provided to the requesting source. Utilizing the plurality of key range tree maps as described herein enables a key range search to be performed using on-board memory of an electronic device.
US12248483B2
Systems and methods for connecting applications based on exchanged information are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include: (1) receiving, by a data mining computer program, application information for a plurality of applications in an organization; (2) receiving, by the data mining computer program, application details for each application comprising application programmable interface (API) used by each application; (3) receiving, by the data mining computer program, API information for each API in the application details; (4) populating, by the data mining computer program, an application data objects table for each application; (5) creating, by the data mining computer program, parent-child relationships for the plurality of applications based on the application data objects table; and (6) generating, by the data mining computer program, an application dependency graph for the parent-child relationships.
US12248481B2
Systems and methods for using crowd sourcing to score online content as it relates to a belief state
A method comprising: during a first time period, obtaining one or more first content ratings of a particular content item from one or more first users, each first content rating defining a first user measure of a belief state of the particular content item; and generating a first content score for the particular content item, the first content score defining a crowd-sourced measure of the belief state of the particular content item; during a second time period, obtaining one or more second content ratings from one or more second users for the particular content item, each second content rating defining a second user measure of the belief state of the particular content item; and generating a second content score for the particular content item, the second content score defining a second crowd-sourced measure of the belief state of the particular content item; comparing the second crowd-sourced measure of the belief state of the particular content item against each of the one or more first content ratings of the particular content item to determine an expertise value for each of the one or more first users; and issuing the expertise value to each of the one or more first users.
US12248478B2
A method for federated data query includes: using, by a first electronic device, a joint query statement corresponding to a federated data query to obtain at least one operator containing a joint query operator; transforming the joint query operator to a first joint security operator; determining first data for intersection on the first electronic device by executing the first joint security operator, receiving second data for intersection from a second electronic device involved in the federated data query, and performing joint computing on the first data for intersection and the second data for intersection in a form of a ciphertext to obtain a joint data table; and determining a federated data query result corresponding to the at least one operator based on the joint data table.
US12248474B2
Described are systems and methods that suggest candidate recipients to receive an object identifier from a first user. For example, a first user, independent of a conversation with a second user, may select, close-up, or otherwise view an object identifier. The system, upon detecting the interaction with the object identifier by the first user, may determine one or more second users to suggest to the first user as candidate recipients with which the first user can share the viewed object identifier. The systems and methods may also suggest object identifiers to share with a selected recipient and/or determine two or more users that have a common connection and share an object identifier related to the connection with each of those users.
US12248470B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide for anticipatory pre-execution of queries. In an implementation of the disclosure, a method for anticipatory pre-execution of queries includes the computation of an execution cost of each of a multiplicity of different queries to a data source scheduled at a specified time on a specified date. The method also includes monitoring a querying processing schedule and detecting from the monitoring, unscheduled time on a particular date prior to the specified time on the specified date. Finally, the method includes responding to the detection by first selecting a most expensive one of the different queries in terms of execution cost, for instance an amount of computing resources consumed in executing a corresponding one of the different queries, and then executing the selected most expensive one of the different queries during the unscheduled time on the particular date prior to the specified time on the specified date.
US12248469B2
Set analysis may be used to determine the best data analysis model(s) (e.g., data charts, data tables, data graphs, data maps, graphical objects, key performance indicators (KPIs), etc.) for representing the results of an undetermined query (e.g., an imprecise query, an undefined query, an incomplete query, a partially expressed query, a portioned query, etc.).
US12248465B1
A system and method uses a set of processors that each perform a logic function to identify portions of a data source meeting a criteria. Each logic function is performed against a row of a column of the data source, and a value that is derived from the criteria for that logic function, which is also derived from the criteria. The output of each of the logic functions is applied as an address to a table that has been configured to read true at the addresses corresponding to the criteria being met, and false otherwise. Data from the row of the database table having a table value of true are retrieved from the data source.
US12248464B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a query execution debugger, for use with a computing environment such as, for example, a business intelligence environment, database, data warehouse, or other type of environment that supports data analytics. A query engine, for example a business intelligence server instance, serves analytics queries or requests from clients, directed to data stored at a database, in accordance with a query execution plan, wherein a logical query can include query language statements received from the clients; while a physical query includes database-specific statements that the query engine sends to the database to retrieve data when processing the logical query. The system can create a query execution debugger file that includes a record metadata portion or section, and a data portion or section, and which can be used to review, simulate, or debug the processing of queries against the database.
US12248462B2
Disclosed is a system and a method for semantic search in an enterprise. The method comprises defining entities in the enterprise, indexing content from one or more data sources of the enterprise to determine relationships between individual pieces of the content and one or more of the entities, providing an interface to allow a user to enter a search query, parsing the search query, determining relevant pieces of the content based on the parsed search query, identifying the one or more of the entities for each of the relevant pieces of content based on the relationships therebetween and configuring the interface to display each of the relevant pieces of the content under respective one or more of the entities in response to the search query.
US12248458B1
The invention provides, in some aspects, a digital data processing method that includes executing a remote app on a client digital data processor that is adapted to be at least intermittently connected for communications with a server digital data processor and, with the remote app, requesting from the server digital data processor a schema of a table used by the app. The remote app uses that to facilitate user navigation of records or other structured data in the table by presenting a view or report of such records (or other structured data) in the table in accord with a format and content defined in the schema and/or selecting table data for presentation in the view or report based on a query defined in that schema.
US12248457B1
An embodiment for detecting anomalous data using dependency modeling. The embodiment may, within a target data environment, identify references between data contained in one or more data files. The embodiment may determine dependency relationships between data fields in the data contained in the one or more data files. The embodiment may construct computational graphs depicting the determined dependency relationships as series of related data fields. The embodiment may identify a series of associated computational graphs within the constructed computational graphs. The embodiment may calculate abnormality degree values for each of the data fields within the constructed computation graphs. The embodiment may, in response to detecting an anomalous data field having a calculated abnormality degree value above a threshold value, calculating contribution values for a series of associated component data fields to identify a root cause for the detected anomalous data field.
US12248443B2
Techniques are disclosed pertaining to migrating a database between different storage clusters. A computer system identifies a current state of the database that is managed by a database application that enables a client application to access data of the database stored at a first storage cluster. The computer system copies first particular data of the database that is associated with the current state from the first storage cluster to a second storage cluster. After the copying, the computer system transitions the database application into a read-only mode in which it processes read but not write traffic. The computer system copies, from the first storage cluster to the second storage cluster, second particular data of the database that was generated by the database application during the copying of the first particular data. The computer system may also instantiate another instance of the database application in association with the second storage cluster.
US12248432B2
A size associated with a first content file is determined to be less than a threshold size. In response to determining that the size associated with the first content file is less than the threshold size, a combined metadata structure is updated at least in part by combining metadata of the first content file with metadata of a second content file in the combined metadata structure. A snapshot tree is updated to reference a first portion of the combined metadata structure corresponding to the first content file and to reference a second portion of the combined metadata structure corresponding to the second content file.
US12248430B2
Methods and systems related to the efficient execution of complex computations by a multicore processor and the movement of data among the various processing cores in the multicore processor are disclosed. A multicore processor includes a set of processing cores and associated sets of processing pipelines, core controllers, routers, and network interface units. The multicore processor also includes a computation layer, for conducting computations using the set of processing cores, with executable instructions for the set of processing pipelines which are executed by the set of core controllers. The multicore processor also includes a network-on-chip layer, for connecting the set of processing cores in the multicore processor, with executable instructions for the set of routers and the set of network interface units. The multicore processor also includes a set of programmable controllers, with executable instructions for reformatting computational data from the computation layer for transmission through the network-on-chip layer.
US12248425B2
A switch is described. The switch includes a plurality of ports, a plurality of port logic modules, a memory, and a switch fabric. Transactions ingress and egress the switch via the ports. The port logic modules are coupled with the ports. Each port logic module has core clock domain logic for a core clock domain specific to a corresponding port. The memory includes banks. The memory and the switch fabric have a system clock domain. The core clock domain for each of the port logic modules is different from the system clock domain.
US12248423B2
An apparatus includes logic circuitry that selects a retag transaction identifier for an original transaction identifier of an incoming transaction request, based on a plurality of sub-groups of retag tracking data. Each sub-group of retag tracking data is associated with a corresponding sub-group of retag transaction identifiers in a group of retag transaction identifiers. The logic circuitry retags the incoming transaction request with the selected retag transaction identifier (ID) by replacing the original transaction identifier associated with the incoming transaction request and sends the retagged incoming transaction request to a target. A returned response is received from the target. The retag transaction ID in the returned response is removed and replaced with the original transaction ID before being sent as a reply to the requesting unit. Associated methods are also presented.
US12248421B1
Semiconductor devices, packaging architectures and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a chiplet-based multi-chip module (MCM) is disclosed. The chiplet-based MCM includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chiplet comprising a first interface to receive a first set of information-carrying signals associated with a memory access operation. Conversion circuitry generates a second set of support signals associated with the memory access operation. The conversion circuitry aggregates the second set of support signals with the first set of information-carrying signals to generate an aggregate set of signals associated with the memory access operation. A second interface transmits the aggregate set of signals. Memory, comprising a memory interface coupled to the second interface of the first IC chiplet receives the aggregate set of signals.
US12248420B2
The invention relates to a computer system and method having at least one peripheral device, a control module for controlling the peripheral device, and a connection module, which is connected to the control module via a first data link. The connection module has I/O data ports for exchanging pieces of information with the peripheral device, and the peripheral device is connected to one or multiple of the I/O data ports via a second data link. The number of channels in the first data link is smaller than the number of I/O data ports of the connection module. The control module includes a first gateway, which receives pieces of setpoint state information relating to the I/O data ports of the connection module.
US12248416B2
A network adapter includes a network interface, a bus interface, a hardware-implemented data-path and a programmable Data-Plane Accelerator (DPA). The network interface is to communicate with a network. The bus interface is to communicate with an external device over a peripheral bus. The hardware-implemented data-path includes a plurality of packet-processing engines to process data units exchanged between the network and the external device. The DPA is to expose on the peripheral bus a User-Defined Peripheral-bus Device (UDPD), to run user-programmable logic that implements the UDPD, and to process transactions issued from the external device to the UDPD by reusing one or more of the packet-processing engines of the data-path.
US12248415B2
A method includes obtaining behavioral source code defining logic to be performed using at least one logic device and constraints identifying data movements associated with execution of the logic. The at least one logic device contains multiple components that support at least one of: internal data movements within the at least one logic device and external data movements external to the logic device as defined by the behavioral source code and the constraints. The constraints identify characteristics of at least one of: the internal data movements and the external data movements. The method also includes automatically designing one or more data movers for use within the at least one logic device, where the one or more data movers are configured to perform at least one of the internal and external data movements in accordance with the characteristics.
US12248405B2
An integrated circuit for translating and reverse-translating the address included in a memory request is disclosed. The integrated circuit may first comprise a processor, a first boundary function, a second boundary function, and a component device. The processor is configured to transmit a memory request to a target module over a bus of the integrated circuit. The memory request requests access to one or more memory mapped resources and the memory request includes a physical address. The first boundary function is configured to translate the physical address to a relative address which operates in or applies to a different address space than an address space that the physical address operates in or applies to. The second boundary function is configured to translate the relative address to the physical address. The device is configured utilize the physical address transmitted by the second boundary function.
US12248402B2
A high bandwidth memory system. In some embodiments, the system includes: a memory stack having a plurality of memory dies and eight 128-bit channels; and a logic die, the memory dies being stacked on, and connected to, the logic die; wherein the logic die may be configured to operate a first channel of the 128-bit channels in: a first mode, in which a first 64 bits operate in pseudo-channel mode, and a second 64 bits operate as two 32-bit fine-grain channels, or a second mode, in which the first 64 bits operate as two 32-bit fine-grain channels, and the second 64 bits operate as two 32-bit fine-grain channels.
US12248391B2
A defect analysis apparatus includes an execution log (program execution log) of a program (source code) in an input. The defect analysis apparatus includes an analysis start point acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the execution log and as an analysis start point, a statement of the program in which an exception occurs; an analysis end point acquisition unit configured to acquire, as an analysis end point, a function directly or indirectly calling a function including the analysis start point; and a symbolic execution engine configured to perform reverse symbolic execution from the analysis start point to the analysis end point and output an execution path.
US12248387B2
Techniques for identifying user reaction in connection with an online application are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising obtaining activity data in connection with a user of an application, generating feature data using the obtained activity data, obtaining a user reaction prediction from a user reaction prediction model trained to output the user reaction prediction in response to the feature data. The user reaction prediction indicates a probability of the user reaction in connection with the application. A determination is made, using the user reaction prediction, whether or not to take a remedial action in connection with the user and the application.
US12248385B2
An information processing device includes a computer system and a dedicated device connected via a dedicated bus, wherein the computer system implements a monitoring unit via an operating system thereof. The monitoring unit includes a detection module configured to detect the blocked state of the dedicated bus, and a blocking release module activated upon detecting the blocked state of the dedicated bus and configured to perform a blocking release process for instructing the operating system to disconnect the dedicated device, for releasing the blocked state of the dedicated bus, for instructing the operating system to reset the dedicated device disconnected from the computer system, and for instructing the operating system to reconnect the dedicated device to the computer system after resetting the dedicated device.
US12248379B2
Ensuring resiliency to storage device failures in a storage system, including: determining a number of storage device failures within a particular write group that are to be tolerated by the storage system; for a plurality of datasets stored within the storage system, writing each dataset to at least a predetermined number of storage devices within the particular write group, wherein the predetermined number of storage devices is greater than the number of storage device failures within the particular write group that are to be tolerated by the storage system; and responsive to recovering from a system interruption: determining a number of readable storage devices that contain a copy of the dataset; and if the number of readable storage devices that contain a copy of the dataset is not greater than the number of failures that are to be tolerated, writing the dataset to one or more additional storage devices.
US12248373B2
A data storage device and method for enhanced recovery through data storage device discrete-component-hardware-reset are provided. In one embodiment, the data storage device determines that a subset of a plurality of memory dies is non-responsive, sends a request to a host to accept longer delays associated with the subset of the plurality of memory dies, power-cycles the subset of the plurality of memory dies, and then informs the host that the latency associated with those dies has been restored to normal latency or that the subset of the plurality of memory dies are inactive (in case of unsuccessful recovery). Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US12248371B1
An electronic device comprises a main chiplet including a first memory and at least one sub-chiplet including a second memory, wherein the main chiplet is configured to initialize a first interface for inter-chiplet connection based on first boot firmware stored in the first memory in response to receiving booting signal, acquire third boot firmware stored in an external memory, initialize a second interface for communication between an external device and the main chiplet based on the third boot firmware, set a configuration for interconnection between the main chiplet and the at least one sub-chiplet, initialize a third memory included in the main chiplet, and load at least one of an application firmware or an operating system to the third memory, and the at least one sub-chiplet is configured to initialize the first interface based on second boot firmware stored in the second memory in response to receiving the booting signal.
US12248364B2
Intelligent recovery of managed devices can be provided in a multi-tenant cloud environment. A recovery service can be employed to maintain management server details and device details for managed devices across multiple tenants. When a managed device loses connectivity to its management server, an agent on the managed device can access the recovery server to obtain management server details which have been associated with device details of the managed device. The agent can then use the management server details to regain connectivity to the management server.
US12248362B2
A method, a device and computer program for recording a plurality of events in an encoded tracer variable in a security-oriented computer program, wherein each event is recorded as a value in the encoded tracer variable, where in order to simultaneously record multiple events from the values for the events, a total value is first calculated which is then recorded in the encoded tracer variable, such that multiple independent consistency criteria can be advantageously processed simultaneously to detect and propagate errors or other events and such that by virtue of the simultaneous processing, many dynamic effects are prevented during the detection and propagation of errors/events, thus allowing for the necessary reduced complexity of security programs.
US12248359B2
Methods and systems for analyzing data are disclosed. An example method can comprise receiving a first data signal, decoding the first data signal, determining a second data signal based on the decoded first data signal, and determining a modulation error ratio based on a difference between the first data signal and the second data signal.
US12248356B2
Examples include techniques to reduce memory power consumption during a system idle state. Cores of a single socket multi-core processor may be mapped to different virtual non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) nodes and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may be partitioned into multiple segments that are capable of having self-refresh operations separately deactivated or activated. Different segments from among the multiple segments of DRAM may be mapped to the virtual NUMA nodes to allow for a mechanism to cause memory requests for pinned or locked pages of data to be directed to a given virtual NUMA node.
US12248354B2
A power controller for a data storage system automatically selects different power modes based on changing forecasts of availability of renewable energy. The power modes indicate settings for each of a plurality of hardware resources, such as processors, fans, memory, and drives. At times when the storage system can operate at less than the maximum level of performance in terms of IO latency or IOPS, power consumption of one or more of the hardware resources is reduced to a degree corresponding to availability of renewable energy. For example, the hardware resources may be operated in a relatively higher power mode when renewable energy is available than when renewable energy is unavailable. The storage system may be configured to automatically implement a low power mode when power from all sources is in limited supply, e.g., during a brownout.
US12248353B1
A method of performing power saving control on a display device includes: generating, by a timing controller of the display device, a power saving start indication and a power saving end indication in response to changing of a refresh rate of the display device; receiving, by a source driver of the display device, the power saving start indication and the power saving end indication; in response to the power saving start indication, allowing a part of circuitry of the source driver to be powered down during a vertical blanking interval; and in response to the power saving end indication, allowing the powered down part of circuitry of the source driver to be woken up during the vertical blanking interval.
US12248351B2
Power governance circuitry is provided to control a performance level of a processing unit of a processing platform. The power governance circuitry comprises measurement circuitry to measure a current utilization of the processing unit at a current operating frequency and to determine any change in utilization or power and frequency control circuitry is provided to update the current operating frequency to a new operating frequency by determining a new target quantified power expenditure to be applied in a subsequent processing cycle depending on the determination of any change in utilization or power. A new operating frequency is selected to satisfy the new target quantified power based on a scalability function specifying a variation of a given value of utilization or power with the operating frequency. A processing platform and machine readable instructions are provided to set a new quantified target power of a processing unit.
US12248350B2
A system includes a plurality of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), connected by a network. The plurality of SoCs and the network are configured to operate as a single logical computing system. The plurality of SoCs may be configured to exchange local power information indicative of network activity occurring on their respective portions of the network. A given one of the plurality of SoCs may be configured to determine that a local condition for placing the respective portion of the network corresponding to the given SoC into a reduced power mode has been satisfied. The given SoC may be further configured to place the respective portion of the network into the reduced power mode in response to determining that a global condition for the reduced power mode is satisfied. The global condition may be assessed based upon current local power information for remaining ones of the plurality of SoCs.
US12248335B2
Phase detector circuitry includes first mixer circuitry configured to receive a first clock signal and a second clock signal. The first mixer circuitry includes a first plurality of transistors. The first plurality of transistors includes first transistors, second transistors, and an output transistor. The first transistors receive the first clock signal, and the second transistors receive the second clock signal. The first output transistor outputs a first output signal. The first output signal corresponds to a first phase difference between the first clock signal and the second clock signal.
US12248327B1
The present invention discloses a method for UAV path planning in urban airspace based on a safe reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called shield-DDPG, which combines a shield model with a DDPG algorithm and pertains to the field of UAV technologies. The method takes an attractive force from the destination point into account when an action is selected, which improves the convergence speed of the algorithm and also improve the efficiency of UAV path planning. More importantly, the method provided by the present invention can effectively verify safety of an action in terms of the air collision risk and the ground impact risk, and ensure that a final output of the algorithm is a safe optimal solution. Therefore, the present invention can effectively solve the problem that when the RL algorithm is used for UAV path planning, it is difficult to ensure the safety of the learning or execution process due to the lack of hard constraints.
US12248321B2
A system and method for generating simulated vehicles with configured behaviors for analyzing autonomous vehicle motion planners are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: obtaining configuration instructions and data for each of a plurality of simulated vehicles, a specific driving behavior for each of the plurality of simulated vehicles corresponding to perception data obtained from perception data sensors; and generating a plurality of trajectories and acceleration profiles to transition each of the plurality of simulated vehicles from a current position and speed to a corresponding target position and target speed, the target position and the target speed corresponding to the specific driving behavior for each of the plurality of simulated vehicles.
US12248317B2
A system for operating a vehicle based on a state of a rider includes an artificial intelligence system, a vehicle control system, and a feedback loop. The artificial intelligence system processes a sensory input from a wearable device in a vehicle to determine a state of a rider and optimizes an operating parameter of the vehicle to improve the state of the rider. The artificial intelligence system includes a neural net with a perceptron to mimic human senses to facilitate determining a state of a rider based on an extent to which at least one of the senses of the rider is stimulated. The vehicle control system adjusts vehicle operating parameters and the feedback loop indicates the change in the state of the rider, where the vehicle control system adjusts at least one of the plurality of vehicle operating parameters responsive to the indication of the change.
US12248314B2
A method for activating an automated parking maneuver to be carried out via a parking assistance system with a motor vehicle is provided. The parking assistance system can be operated remotely from outside the motor vehicle by way of a mobile communications device. The method includes outputting an instruction via the mobile communications device for the user-side execution of a predefined activation movement of the mobile communications device; determining first sensor information relating to the activation movement of the communications device by way of a communications-device-side sensor system; detecting an activation movement of the mobile communications device carried out by the mobile communications device based on the first sensor information; and activating the parking maneuver according to the detection of the activation movement of the mobile communications device.
US12248301B2
A modular information technology component (MITC) includes: a floor, in which the floor comprises a first floor plate (FP) and a second FP, in which the first FP and the second FP are oriented in a first plane; and a first hydraulic pump (HP) and a second HP, in which the first HP is located underneath the first FP, in which the second HP is located underneath the second FP, in which the first HP and the second HP are deactivated, in which, when an information handling system (IHS) is loaded on the second FP, the second FP becomes oriented in a second plane, in which the second plane is lower than the first plane, and in which, when the second FP becomes oriented in the second plane, the second HP is activated to raise the second FP to the first plane.
US12248294B2
A rotation control unit performs a rotation process of rotating a servomotor which is connected to a device via a power transmission means. A waveform-data acquisition unit performs a waveform-data acquisition process of acquiring waveform data when the servomotor is rotated. A determination unit performs a determination process of determining whether or not rotation has been transmitted to the device when the servomotor is rotated, based on the waveform data. A calculation unit ends a repetition process of repeating a search process, the search process being constituted by the rotation process, the waveform-data acquisition process, and the determination process, when it is determined that the rotation has been transmitted to the device, and calculates as a backlash amount, a sum of a rotation amount in the repetition process, the rotation amount being an amount by which the rotation control unit has rotated the servomotor in the rotation process.
US12248282B2
A display device includes a substrate having a through-hole. The display device also includes a display unit formed on the substrate and surrounding the through-hole, and the display unit is configured to display an image and includes pixels.
US12248280B2
A motor group including motor modules, each including a motor device driving a display wheel set, with a center pipe fixed on a plate, including a device for rotational guiding, about a main axis, of a display wheel set internal or external to the center pipe, this module includes an axial stop arranged to limit to a predetermined value the axial play in the direction of the main axis between the center pipe and the display wheel set, wherein a protruding surface of the center pipe or of the display wheel set, or an added axial stop, captively mounted between the center pipe and the display wheel set, or fixed to the display wheel set.
US12248276B2
A horological resonator mechanism, including a structure carrying, via a flexible suspension, an anchor unit from which is suspended an inertial element oscillating about a pivot axis extending in a first direction Z, in a first degree of rotational freedom RZ, under the effect of the return forces of a flexure pivot including longitudinal elastic strips, each fixed to the inertial element and to the anchor unit, the flexible suspension allowing the anchor unit to move in five degrees of freedom, this resonator is a composite assembly made of at least two different materials, on the one hand for the flexure pivot, and on the other hand for the flexible suspension.
US12248273B2
In an electrophotographic photosensitive member, wrinkles have a convex portion in which a linear shape portion having a length of 50 μm or longer exists, the linear shape portion is parallel to any one of L1 to L150 and L1651 to L1800, and each of L1 to L1800 intersects with the convex portion at a plurality of places, and at least two of the places have different intersection angles; and when height information of the wrinkles is subjected to a frequency analysis, and a two-dimensional power spectrum is obtained, a one-dimensional radial distribution function has at least one local maximum value, and when an angular distribution is calculated from the spectrum at a frequency of the local maximum value, the power values have a particular relationship.
US12248267B2
An image forming apparatus includes: plural image forming units that form images to be transferred to a recording medium; and a processor configured to cause an information display image to be transferred to a recording medium to which a diagnostic image that has been formed by a diagnosis target image forming unit, which is an image forming unit as a target for a diagnosis among the plural image forming units, is transferred, the information display image being an image representing information and having been formed by a different image forming unit.
US12248266B2
A conductive sheet that is configured to be stacked between a sheet tray of an image forming device and a sheet. The conductive sheet includes a base layer and a regulator. The base layer comprises a conductive material. The base layer is configured to be stacked between the sheet tray and the sheet so that the conductive material overlaps with a wireless tag of the sheet. The regulator is configured to regulate conveyance of the conductive sheet by the image forming device when the conductive sheet is stacked between the sheet tray and the sheet so that the conductive material overlaps with the wireless tag of the sheet.
US12248265B2
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former that forms an image on continuous form paper; and a hardware processor that calculates a paper cost for a print job of the continuous form paper, on the basis of a distance of the continuous form paper conveyed from a start to an end of the print job.
US12248263B2
An image forming apparatus includes a pressure roller, a driver that drives rotation of the pressure roller, an endless fixing belt, a pressing member that is provided inside the fixing belt and opposite to the pressure roller and forms a nip portion in which the fixing belt and the pressure roller come into contact with each other, a pressing force adjustment mechanism that adjusts a pressing force for pressing one of the pressure roller and the pressing member toward another one of the pressure roller and the pressing member, and a drive controller that controls the pressing force adjustment mechanism and the driver to rotate the pressure roller with the pressing force being smaller than a normal value defined for a normal state.
US12248262B2
A fixing device to be attached to an image forming apparatus includes a heater, a heating rotating body, a pressure rotating body, a frame, and a reinforcement plate. The heating rotating body is heated by the heater. The pressure rotating body forms a nip in combination with the heating rotating body. The frame is made of plastic and configured to support the heating rotating body and the pressure rotating body. The frame has a first end and a second end located apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the pressure rotating body. The frame includes a side wall located at the first end thereof. The reinforcement plate is made of metal and fixed to the side wall. The reinforcement plate includes a protrusion that protrudes in the longitudinal direction. The protrusion locates the fixing device in place with respect to the image forming apparatus.
US12248257B2
A developing apparatus includes a sealing sheet to seal an opening portion in a developing container, an attaching portion provided on an accommodating chamber and to which the sealing sheet is attached, and a discharge portion through which the sealing sheet is discharged from inside of the developer container to outside of the developer container. The initial developer in the accommodating chamber moves to a second chamber through the opening portion by discharging the sealing sheet through the discharge portion from the inside of the developer container to the outside of the developer container. The discharge portion is disposed upstream from the opening portion and above the opening portion, and the discharge portion is disposed on a wall surface of the developer container intersected with a side wall of the developer container, the side wall having a through hole which a second conveyance screw penetrates.
US12248255B2
A system for measuring the difference between a property of a first target and a property of a second target, the system comprising a first member and a second member, wherein the first member comprises a first pattern, and the speed of rotation of the first member is configured to be based on the property of the first target; and the second member comprises a second pattern wherein, the speed of rotation of the second member is configured to be based on the property of the second target, further wherein the first and second pattern are angularly-varying and are configured to generate an interference pattern by their interaction when the first and second members have a relative difference in their rotational speeds, the interference pattern being indicative of the magnitude of this difference.
US12248253B2
An optical device includes a plurality of laser light sources, an output module having an optical modulator, and a time divider that is disposed between the plurality of laser light sources and the output module and that is configured to divide laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser light sources in time.
US12248247B2
Wire grid polarizer and manufacturing method thereof are provided, the wire grid polarizer includes: substrate; first wire grid formed on substrate, including first wire grid reflection strips arranged parallel to each other and at equal intervals; second wire grid formed at a side of first wire grid away from substrate, including second wire grid reflection strips arranged in parallel to each other and at equal intervals; second wire grid reflection strips are in one-to-one correspondence with first wire grid reflection strips; orthographic projections of second wire grid reflection strip onto substrate falls within orthographic projections of corresponding first wire grid reflection strip onto substrate; wire width of second wire grid reflection strip is less than that of first wire grid reflection strip; and wire spacing of second wire grid reflection strip is greater than that of the first wire grid reflection strip.
US12248242B2
Methods and systems for fracturing a pattern to be exposed on a surface using variable shaped beam (VSB) lithography include inputting an initial pattern; calculating a first substrate pattern from the initial pattern; overlaying the initial pattern with a two-dimensional grid, wherein an initial set of VSB shots are formed by a union of the initial pattern with locations on the grid; and merging two or more adjacent shots in the initial set of VSB shots to create a larger shot in a modified set of VSB shots; and outputting the modified set of VSB shots. The methods and systems also include calculating a calculated pattern to be exposed on the surface with the modified set of VSB shots; and calculating a second substrate pattern from the calculated pattern to be exposed on the surface.
US12248237B2
An attraction system of an amusement park includes a viewing area, a virtual area, and a beam splitter. The beam splitter is positioned to enable visibility of a portion of the viewing area through the beam splitter and visibility of a portion of the virtual area via reflection off the beam splitter. The attraction system also includes a controller configured to perform operations. The operations include generating image data that is distorted in correlation to a distortive parameter associated with a first element disposed in the viewing area. The distortive parameter is indicative of a distortion applied by the first element to light interacting with the first element. The operations also include transmitting the image data to cause display of a second element in the virtual area.
US12248231B2
The present disclosure provides a connecting bracket and a camera system. The camera system may include a first lens unit, a second lens unit, a first image sensor unit corresponding to the first lens unit, a second image sensor unit corresponding to the second lens unit, and a connecting bracket configured to connect the first lens unit and the first image sensor unit to form a first camera component, and connect the second lens unit and the second image sensor unit to form a second camera component. A predetermined angle may be formed between a first optical axis of the first camera component and a second optical axis of the second camera component.
US12248230B2
The present disclosure discloses a stabilizer configured to be rotatable about a pitch axis and a roll axis for stabilizing a photographing device. Said stabilizer includes: a handle with a pitch axis motor, on a side face of which is provided with a first coupling part; a connection arm, on the distal end portion of which is provided with a holder driven by the roll axis motor and on a side face of which is provided with a second coupling part coupled with said first coupling part, such that said connection arm can move towards the distal direction or the proximal direction relative to said handle, and can move into a storage configuration with reduced storage space.
US12248222B2
A display device may include a scan line extending in a first direction, a storage line parallel to the scan line, a first data line disposed on the scan line and the storage line, the first data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a second data line parallel to the first data line, a transistor including a control electrode protruding from the scan line, a source electrode protruding from the first data line, and a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode and including a drain electrode extending portion, and a pixel electrode disposed between the first data line and the second date line and connected to the drain electrode extending portion. The storage line or the scan line may include a first extending portion between the second data line and the drain electrode extending portion in a plan view.
US12248216B2
The backlight module includes: a backplane and an adhesive frame. The backplane includes a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates, matching to define an accommodating space. The side plates include at least one first side plate. The first side plate has at least two clamping grooves distributed in an extending direction of the first side plate. The adhesive frame includes subframes connected with the side plates. A first subframe in the subframes is connected with the first side plate. The first subframe includes a bearing part and at least two clamping parts in correspondence with the clamping grooves. The bearing part is on a side of the accommodating space away from the bottom plate. The clamping parts are on a side of the bearing part facing the bottom plate. Each clamping part is clamped with the corresponding clamping groove in a matching mode.
US12248213B2
A display device comprises a display panel including a liquid crystal layer between a pair of substrates and a heater including a plurality of electrodes arranged at a distance from each other and disposed adjacent to the display panel. The plurality of electrodes includes a first electrode heated at a first temperature and a second electrode heated at a second temperature lower than the first temperature. Each of the plurality of electrodes may be a transparent electrode on a transparent substrate.
US12248198B2
Techniques for providing eyewear with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles of the eyewear. The electrical components can be partially or completely internal to eyewear, such as within an extended endpiece or a removable temple (or temple part). The electrical components can also be attached to the eyewear as an after-market enhancement. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. Apparatus for presenting after-market electrical components are also disclosed.
US12248196B2
An optical imaging lens may include a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may provide slim and compact appearance, small fno and great image height along with well image quality.
US12248192B2
A rollable optical fiber ribbon utilizing low attenuation, bend insensitive fibers and cables incorporating such rollable ribbons are provided. The optical fibers are supported by a ribbon body, and the ribbon body is formed from a flexible material such that the optical fibers are reversibly movable from an unrolled position to a rolled position. The optical fibers have a large mode filed diameter, such as ≥9 microns at 1310 nm facilitating low attenuation splicing/connectorization. The optical fibers are also highly bend insensitive, such as having a macrobend loss of ≤0.5 dB/turn at 1550 nm for a mandrel diameter of 15 mm.
US12248191B2
An optical connector has a connector housing assembly for holding one or more ferrules, the connector housing assembly having a height align a vertical alignment axis and a width perpendicular to the height. The connector housing assembly includes an inner front body and an outer release component, the outer release component being movable in relation to the inner front body between a front position and a back position. The optical fiber connector is configured to mate with a receptacle having an upper receptacle hook such that the upper receptacle hook is received in the upper receptacle hook recess and latches with the upper hook retainer surface when the outer release component is in the front position and such that the upper ramp lifts the upper receptacle hook out of the upper receptacle hook recess when the outer release component moves to the back position.
US12248186B2
An optical connector jig for connecting a second optical connector to a first optical connector, or disconnecting the second optical connector from the first optical connector, includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing includes a positioning portion to determine a position of the jig with respect to the first optical connector in cooperation with a member indicating a position of the first optical connector. The second housing grips the second optical connector such that, when the jig is positioned with respect to the first optical connector, a connection surface of the second optical connector faces a connection surface of the first optical connector. The second housing moves with respect to the first housing such that the connection surface of the gripped second optical connector is close to or away from the connection surface of the first optical connector.
US12248183B2
An optical connector includes a ferrule accommodating an optical fiber, and a housing covering an outer circumference of the ferrule. An outer circumferential surface of the ferrule has a recessed part or a projecting part for positioning extending in an optical axis direction of the optical fiber. The housing has a slit extending in the optical axis direction at a position corresponding to the recessed part or the projecting part of the ferrule.
US12248180B2
The present invention relates to a photonic chip carried out by the combination and interconnection of equally-oriented Programmable Photonics Processing Blocks, with all their longitudinal axes in parallel, implemented over a photonic chip that is capable of implementing one or multiple, simultaneous photonics circuits with optical feedback paths and/or linear multiport transformations, by the appropriate programming of its resources and the selection of its input and output ports. The invention also relates to a parallel field-programmable photonic array (P-FPPA) comprising of, at least one programmable circuit based on equally-oriented/parallel tunable beam-splitters with independent coupling and phase-shifting configuration and peripheral high-performance building blocks.
US12248179B2
An object is to provide an optical coupling system having a simplified structure and a small size and an optical communication device using the optical coupling system. The object is achieved by an optical coupling system that couples a multi-core fiber and coupled devices to each other using a combination of a polarized light beam control element facing a light incident and emission surface of a multi-core fiber and a polarization-selective diffraction element that is positioned on a side of the polarized light beam control element opposite to the emission surface of the multi-core fiber and that faces the coupled devices.
US12248167B2
According to one embodiment, in an illumination device, a second light guide includes a plurality of fourth projecting portions provided in a first area of a fifth main surface opposing a prism sheet, a plurality of fifth projecting portions provided in a second area of a fifth main surface, and a plurality of sixth projecting portions on a sixth main surface opposing the fifth main surface, cross-sectional shapes of the fourth projecting portions and the fifth projecting portions are scalene triangles, and the fourth projecting portions and the fifth projecting portions are arranged in respective positions line-symmetrical position with respect to each other in plan view.
US12248165B2
An illumination device includes light sources and a light guide member. The light guide member includes an incidence part that guides light emitted from the light sources and entering through an incidence surface towards a center of the light guide member and a central part that has a scattering surface for emitting the guided light towards an illumination target body. The light sources include a first light source facing the incidence surface and a second light source facing the incidence surface and is arranged on the central part's side relative to the first light source. The incidence part has a first curved surface that reflects the light entering through the incidence surface towards the central part and a second curved surface that is arranged on the central part's side relative to the first curved surface and reflects the light entering through the incidence surface towards the central part.
US12248162B2
An optical assembly including light sources emitting light beams having multiple wavelengths; fiber combiner(s) arranged to combine light beams into combined beam, light beams enter fiber combiner(s); optical homogenizer(s), combined beam having non-homogenous intensity profile received at third end and combined beam having homogeneous intensity profile exits at fourth end; first optical element(s) second optical element(s), between optical homogenizer(s) and light guide(s), first optical element(s) and second optical(s) element collectively steer combined beam towards light guide(s), when optical assembly in use, second optical element(s) is adjustable to steer combined beam; first actuator(s) coupled to first optical element(s); controller coupled to first actuator(s), controller generate first signal controlling first actuator(s) that combined beam is steered by first optical element(s) also causing vibration of first optical element(s) at randomized pattern.
US12248154B2
An augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or mixed reality (AR/VR) system includes a wearable visualization assembly configured to be worn by a user and to display virtual features for visualization by the user during a ride stage of an attraction. The wearable visualization assembly includes a sensor configured to provide feedback indicative of an attachment status of the wearable visualization assembly on the user. The AR/VR system also includes a retraction assembly coupled to the wearable visualization assembly via a tether and configured to retrieve the tether. The AR/VR system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the retraction assembly and the sensor. The controller is configured to actuate the retraction assembly to retrieve the tether to transition the wearable visualization assembly to a storage configuration in response to the feedback indicating that the wearable visualization assembly is in a detached configuration during the ride stage.
US12248147B2
Provided is an information processing device that includes a gaze point calculation unit, a depth calculation unit, a display generation unit, and a drive calculation unit. The gaze point calculation unit calculates a gaze point on a virtual image reflected on a half mirror. The depth calculation unit generates depth information related to a depth of the gaze point. The display generation unit generates a display object to be superimposed on the virtual image. The drive calculation unit drives a superimposition optical system of the display object so as to allow the display object to be observed as an image having a depth corresponding to the depth information.
US12248142B2
This optical scanning device includes: a shaft part to which a mirror part is connected; a movable magnet; a base part; a ball bearing; a core unit that has a core body and a coil body and rotationally drives the movable magnet; and a magnet position holding member that is a magnetic body provided facing the movable magnet and magnetically attracts the movable magnet to a reference position. The core unit is disposed on the outer surface side of one wall section of a pair of wall sections of the base part. An angle sensor unit for detecting the rotation angle position of the shaft part is disposed between the core unit and the one wall section.
US12248141B2
A frame synchronization method for a scanning vibrating mirror and a lidar are provided. The method includes: obtaining current parameters of a reference signal, where the parameters of the reference signal include a reference signal period and a current first phase; obtaining signal parameters of a frame scanning signal along a first rotation axis of the vibrating mirror, where the signal parameters include a frame scanning period and a current second phase; determining a phase difference between the reference signal and the frame scanning signal based on the current parameters of the reference signal and the signal parameters of the frame scanning signal of the current scanning period; and determining a scanning duration of a first scanning stage of the frame scanning signal in a next scanning period based on the phase difference. Accordingly, an actual frame scanning period of the scanning vibrating mirror tracks and synchronizes with external frame signals.
US12248120B2
A laminated body including: a substrate; a storage layer; and a buffer layer disposed in this order, in which the storage layer is formed of a cured product of a composition containing a polyfunctional monomer (a1), inorganic particles (a2), and a surfactant (a3), the buffer layer is formed of a cured product of a composition containing a polyfunctional monomer (b1) and inorganic particles (b2), a content mass of the inorganic particles (a2) is 30% by mass or more, a content mass of the inorganic particles (b2) is 30% by mass or more, and the polyfunctional monomer (a1) and the polyfunctional monomer (b1) contain a polyfunctional monomer having a molecular weight per epoxy group in one molecule of 200 g/mol or more.
US12248119B2
A compound represented by Formula (1) given below. (In the formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom of a methyl group, and X represents a C2 to 6 alkylene group, a C4 to 6 alkylene group containing an oxygen atom and/or a sulfur atom, or a C3 to 6 alkylene group in which at least one hydrogen is replaced with an acryloxy group or a methacryloxy group.)
US12248113B2
The invention relates to the technical field of magnetic detection. In particular, it relates to a metal detector for detecting at least one metallic object exposed to a detection magnetic field. A metal detector that uses a sampled-architecture receiver yields a sampling operation separate from the quantization and encoding operations. As a result, sampling can be done directly on the reception signal and most of the signal processing is done in a discrete-time manner (e.g., by the use of switched-capacitor systems with MOS switches for the switching).
US12248106B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a functional status of an ultrasonic sensor (5a) of an ultrasonic sensor device (5) for a motor vehicle (1), which is designed to emit an ultrasonic signal (8) into an environment (4) of the motor vehicle (1) and/or to receive an echo signal (9) of the ultrasonic signal (8), wherein an electrical test signal (P) is generated, which is applied to the ultrasonic sensor (5a), wherein at least one electrical characteristic parameter (K) of the ultrasonic sensor (5a) affected by the electrical test signal (P) is evaluated and as a function thereof a transfer function (13) of the ultrasonic sensor (5a) is determined, which is compared with a reference transfer function (11) and the functional state of the ultrasonic sensor (5a) is determined depending on the comparison.
US12248104B2
Optical sensor according to the time-of-flight principle for detecting objects in a monitored region
The invention relates to an optical sensor according to the time-of-flight principle for detecting objects in a monitored region, having a first transmitter for transmitting first light pulses into the monitored region, a first receiver for detecting first light pulses radiated back by a first object to be detected in the monitored region, a second transmitter for transmitting second light pulses into the monitored region, a second receiver for detecting second light pulses radiated back by the first object or by a further object in the monitored region, a control and evaluation unit which is designed to control the first transmitter and to evaluate the first light pulses detected by the first receiver and to control the second transmitter and to evaluate the second light pulses detected by the second receiver, characterised in that between the first transmitter and the second receiver a first optical reference path is formed, between the second transmitter and the first receiver a second optical reference path is formed, the control and evaluation unit is designed to trigger the first transmitter to transmit first test light pulses which reach the second receiver on the first optical reference path and to activate the second receiver after a first time offset, the first time offset corresponding to a time of flight of the first test light pulses over the first optical reference path, and/or to trigger the second transmitter to transmit second test light pulses which reach the first receiver on the second optical reference path and to activate the first receiver after a second time offset, the second time offset corresponding to a time of flight of the second test light pulses over the second optical reference path, and to evaluate the first test light pulses detected by the second receiver and/or the second test light pulses detected by the first receiver.
US12248091B2
An apparatus comprises processor cores and computer-readable mediums storing machine instructions for the processor cores. When executing the machine instructions, the processor cores obtain received signals for transmitted chirps from a radar sensor circuit. Each transmitted chirp comprises an A chirp segment, a time gap, and a B chirp segment, respectively. The processor cores sample the received signals to obtain sampled data matrices M1(A) for the A chirp segments and M1(B) for the B chirp segments. The processor cores perform a first Fourier transform (FT) on each column of M1(A) and M1(B) to obtain velocity matrices M2(A) and M2(B), respectively. The processor cores apply a phase compensation factor to M2(B) to obtain a phase corrected velocity matrix M2(B′), and concatenate M2(A) and M2(B′) to obtain an aggregate velocity matrix M2(A&B′). The processor cores perform a second FT on each row of M2(A&B′) to obtain a range and velocity matrix M3(A&B′).
US12248090B2
A communication device is capable of estimating an incoming wave number with high accuracy. A communication device includes an antenna and circuitry configured to calculate an arrival direction of a reception signal received from the antenna in a case of a predetermined incoming wave number based on the reception signal and the predetermined incoming wave number, calculate an incoming signal for each of one or more arrival directions in a case of a certain incoming wave number based on the incoming wave number and the one or more arrival directions, and estimate an incoming wave number of the reception signal based on levels of the incoming signals in a plurality of arrival directions.
US12248088B2
A radar semiconductor chip includes a radar circuit component configured to generate at least part of a frequency-modulated ramp signal or process at least part of a reflected frequency-modulated ramp signal according to a control parameter; a memory configured to store a sequencing program associated with regulating the control parameter, wherein the sequencing program specifies a first data source, external to the sequencing program, that is configured to provide a first data value corresponding to the control parameter; and a decoder configured to read the sequencing program, access the first data value from the first data source specified by the sequencing program, derive a first control value for the control parameter from the first data value, and provide the first control value to the radar circuit component. The radar circuit component regulates a controlled circuit function in accordance with the control parameter based on the first control value.
US12248073B2
According to one embodiment, a light detector includes an element including a photodiode. A plurality of the elements are provided. The element includes a structure body for at least a portion of the plurality of elements. The structure body surrounds the photodiode and has a different refractive index from the photodiode. At least portions of the structure bodies are separated from each other.
US12248071B2
A 3D time-of-flight camera for detecting three-dimensional image data from a detection zone is provided, the 3D time-of-flight camera comprising an illumination unit for transmitting transmission light that is modulated with a first modulation frequency; an image sensor having a plurality of reception elements for generating a respective reception signal; a plurality of demodulation units for demodulating the reception signals with the first modulation frequency in order to obtain sampled values; and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to control the illumination unit and/or the demodulation units for a number of measurement repetitions, in each case with a different phase shift between the first modulation frequency for the transmission light and the first modulation frequency for the demodulation, and that is configured to determine a distance value from the sampled values obtained per light reception element by the measurement repetitions. In this respect, the control and evaluation unit is furthermore configured to change the number of measurement repetitions.
US12248069B2
A vehicle driving control system includes: an input device configured to receive LiDAR data and camera and/or radar data obtained for a region of interest around a host vehicle; a microprocessor configured to obtain information for localization on objects of interest by executing a first process for the LiDAR data and the camera and/or radar data and obtain information for driving path on the objects by executing a second process for the LiDAR data and the camera and/or radar data; and an output device configured to output the information for localization and the information for driving path.
US12248068B2
To provide a position detection system, a position detection method, an angle detection method, and a marker that enable detection of a position, adjustment of a position, detection of an angle, and the like of a movable body with respect to a stationary body to be easily performed. Means for solving problem: A position detection system is a position detection system for detecting a position N of a movable body moving with respect to a stationary body, the position detection system including a light source provided in one of the stationary body and the movable body, an imaging unit provided in one of the stationary body and the movable body, a marker provided in the other of the stationary body and the movable body, and a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of the movable body with respect to the stationary body based on luminance of an image of the marker acquired by the imaging unit, wherein the marker includes a reflective layer, and a light control layer provided in the reflective layer, and the light control layer transmits light having an angle of incidence with respect to the main surface being within a predetermined threshold value.
US12248066B2
A light detection device may include: a light receiver comprising a plurality of light detectors configured to receive light emitted from a light emitter toward an object and reflected by the object; and a signal processor configured to process an electrical signal according to the light received by the light receiver. The light receiver includes at least one light receiving area, wherein each of the at least one light receiving area includes a plurality of sub-light receiving areas, and the plurality of light detectors are disposed in the plurality of sub-light receiving areas, respectively. The signal processor includes a plurality of transimpedance amplifiers that have a one-on-one correspondence with the plurality of light detectors, and at least one signal summer that has the one-on-one correspondence with the at least one light receiving area.
US12248063B2
An electronic device includes a plurality of sensors installed in predetermined orientations at different positions. Each of the plurality of sensors includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave, a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected, and a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The electronic device further includes a determination unit that determines a shift in orientation of at least any of the plurality of sensors, based on detection results of an object obtained by the plurality of sensors.
US12248061B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to tracking objects using a cognitive heterogeneous ad hoc mesh network. A first participant receives a notification signal from a second participant. The first participant determines first positioning information from the notification signal and second positioning information from characteristics of the received signal. If the difference between the first and second positioning information is below a first threshold, then the second participant is within line-of-sight of the first participant. If the difference is above the first threshold and below a second threshold, then the second participant may have a malfunctioning sensor. But if the difference is above the second threshold, then the second participant is not within line-of-sight of the first participant and the received signal was reflected off another object. The positioning information can then be refined or transmitted to other participants.
US12248054B2
The present disclosure provides a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system and a method for detecting an object in a scene. The method comprises transmitting frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) in a radio frequency (RF) band, and collecting radar measurements of the scene sampled in a time-frequency domain within an intermediate frequency (IF) bandwidth. The method further comprises transforming the radar measurements into range-doppler space to produce measurements of different segments of the scene for different range-doppler bins formed by intersections of different range bins with different Doppler bins, classifying a presence of the hypothetical transmitter at different segments of the scene according to a signal model with an internal classification, combining the results of the classification to produce parameters of the object, and outputting the parameters of the object.
US12248053B2
Described is a way to process radar data for a radar sensor mounted on a vehicle to generate motion spectrum data for estimating ego-motion information of the vehicle. Data samples of each of a plurality of radar return signals received at each antenna element of the radar sensor are generated for each antenna element. Respective Doppler-processed data including a plurality of data values is calculated for each Doppler bin index. In generating a set of motion spectrum data, which comprises a plurality of data elements each calculated for a respective Doppler bin index and a respective spatial bin index, data values of the Doppler-processed data calculated for the Doppler bin index are selected to calculate a covariance matrix. A spectral estimation algorithm, which uses the covariance matrix, can determine a spatial spectrum value for each spatial bin index.
US12248049B2
A high-frequency magnetic field generating device includes two coils arranged with a predetermined gap in parallel with each other, the two coils (a) in between which electron spin resonance material is arranged or (b) arranged at one side from electron spin resonance material; a high-frequency power supply that generates microwave current that flows in the two coils; and a transmission line part connected to the two coils, that sets a current distribution so as to locate the two coils at positions other than a node of a stationary wave.
US12248047B2
The invention provides a method for performing magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, which exploits prior knowledge of the interactions between electromagnetic fields and spins in the sampled object. This technique is able to provide shorter acquisition times with respect to traditional (Nyquist-Shannon limited) MRI. The method is based on an encoding matrix formalism constructed from the specific knowledge of how every spin would evolve in time depending on their position for a given pulse sequence. This particular previous knowledge has not been fully exploited previously by traditional MRI techniques. Moreover, the method of the invention can be used in combination with other schemes, such as compressed sensing, parallel imaging, or deep learning, for further shortening the MRI scan time.
US12248046B2
A method for operating a magnetic resonance device is provided. The magnetic resonance device includes a component that has an operating limit in relation to a state parameter. The component uses a protocol to record magnetic resonance data. The protocol includes a magnetic resonance sequence and is described by protocol parameters. A protocol parameter set that, in relation to a protocol section, allows the protocol section to be repeated as often as desired without exceeding the operating limit is provided or determined. The method includes receiving a boost parameter from a user interface. At least for the protocol section, adaptation parameters are determined at least partially automatically based on the boost parameter, such that the desired number of repetitions described by the boost parameter is established while complying with the operating limit. Magnetic resonance data is recorded with the protocol using the determined adaptation parameters.
US12248042B2
Techniques are provided for controlling a ramping process of a superconducting magnet of a magnetic resonance imaging device comprising the steps of: acquiring an information indicating a status of a cryocooler configured for cooling of the superconducting magnet via an interface, acquiring an information on a parameter of the superconducting magnet via an interface, determining an operational status of the magnetic resonance imaging device in dependence of the information indicating the status of the cryocooler and/or the information on the parameter of the superconducting magnet via a processing unit and providing a control signal via a control unit, wherein the control signal is configured to control the ramping process of the superconducting magnet. The disclosure also relates to a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising a control unit configured to provide a control signal for controlling the ramping process of the superconducting magnet.
US12248036B2
A portable meter (1) for measuring a force generated by a magnetic apparatus (2), comprising a mobile probe (3) configured to be coupled to the magnetic apparatus (2) whose force needs to be measured, the probe (3) comprising at least one active ferromagnetic element (4) which has a configuration corresponding to that of a pole (N, S) on the magnetic apparatus whose force needs to be measured, the probe being equipped with alignment means (5, 6) configured to align the at least one active ferromagnetic element (4) with at least one magnetic pole (N, S) on the magnetic apparatus (2), the at least one active ferromagnetic element (4) having at least one turn (B)—made of an electrically conductive material—wound around it, and a detection unit (7) interfaced with the at least one turn (B) in order to detect a magnetic flux flowing through the coil at least during a transient of activation/deactivation of the magnetic apparatus.
US12248035B2
A type of rotating disk magnetic field probe (1) comprising: a non-magnetic rotating disk (2), 4N first soft ferromagnetic sectors (3), M second soft ferromagnetic sectors (4), a reference signal generator, an X-axis magnetoresistive sensor (7, 8), a Y-axis magnetoresistive sensor (5,6), and a Z-axis magnetoresistive sensor (9). Both the first soft ferromagnetic sectors (3) and the second soft ferromagnetic sector (4) are located on the non-magnetic rotating disk (2). In operation, the non-magnetic rotating disk (2) rotates about a Z-axis at a frequency f. An external magnetic field is modulated by the first soft ferromagnetic sector (3) into an X-axis magnetic field sensed component and a Y-axis magnetic field sensed component having a frequency of 4N×f, and is modulated by the second soft ferromagnetic field sectors into a Z-axis magnetic field sensed component having a frequency of M×f. The X-axis sensed magnetic field component, the Y-axis sensed magnetic field component, and the Z-axis sensed magnetic field component respectively are converted into output signals by means of the X-axis magnetoresistive sensor (7, 8) the Y-axis magnetoresistive sensor (5, 6) and the Z-axis magnetoresistive sensor (9). The reference signal generator respectively outputs a first reference signal having a frequency of 4N×f and a second reference signal having a frequency of M×f. The first reference signal, the second reference signal, and the measurement signals are demodulated by an external processing circuit to output magnetic field values Hx, Hy and Hz.
US12248034B2
A faulty meter socket detection system configured to detect faulty sockets as evidenced by series arcs in an input current waveform or an increased temperature of the meter is disclosed. The system includes a metering circuit configured to receive an input current waveform, and a controller including a power monitoring module. The meter may also include a temperature sensor. The power monitoring module is configured detect series arc currents input current waveform data by filtering the input current waveform data to produce filtered data, performing feature recognition on the filtered data, classifying the features of the filtered data, performing temporal processing on the filtered data, (optionally) scaling the temporal processing of the filtered data, and, scoring the input current waveform based on the temporal processing of the filtered data. The temperature sensor may detect an increased temperature of the meter, which may indicate a faulty socket.
US12248033B2
An independently mountable sensor system for a wet-mateable subsea connector or a dry-mateable subsea connector having at least one of a receptacle connector body or a plug connector body with a pressure vessel; one or more sensors, a power source, a transmitter, a processor and a memory within the pressure vessel. The pressure inside the pressure vessel is maintained at a predetermined pressure and an antenna is provided in the sensor system. The pressure vessel includes an electromagnetically transparent section to permit electromagnetic waves to pass between the sensor system and an external receiver. The sensor system is configured to be mounted between a back end and a front end of the receptacle connector body, or between a back end and a front end of the plug connector body; or configured to be mounted to the connector body back end.
US12248027B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the value of one or more parameters relating to the state of health of at least one accumulator of a battery that is intended to provide electrical energy to an external application. A first state-of-health parameter related to the resistance of at least one electrochemical element of the battery is determined according to the method comprising: —a step (1) of determining the value of the state of charge of the electrochemical element, expressed as a percentage of a maximum state of charge; —a step (2) of verifying whether the determined value of the state of charge belongs to a sought range; —a step of repeating, as long as the result of the verification step (2) is not positive, the determination step (1) and then the verification step (2); —calculating the value of the first parameter as a function of at least the value of the state of charge determined during the last determination step (1).
US12248015B2
An IC includes a pad, a current detection device connected to the pad and configured to generate monitoring information corresponding to an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event, and an internal circuit configured to receive the monitoring information from the current detection device, wherein the current detection device includes a current sensing circuit having a T-coil that is configured to generate an ESD current when the ESD event occurs and is further configured to generate an induced voltage corresponding to the ESD current, a plurality of detection circuits outputting a detection signal based on the induced voltage, and a monitoring circuit configured to receive the detection signal from each of the plurality of detection circuits and configured to generate the monitoring information, wherein the plurality of detection circuits have different sensitivities with respect to the induced voltage.
US12248002B2
A probe is provided and is configured for placement against and for movement along a body of interest and is configured to control and minimize compressive forces induced by the probe on the body of interest. The probe includes a probe handle portion that includes an outer probe housing and a probe head portion that is movably disposed within the outer probe housing. The probe head portion has a first end that defines a contact surface for placement along the body of interest. The probe head portion further has an extension that protrudes outwardly therefrom a second end of the probe head portion that is opposite the first end. The probe has at least one constant force spring that is coupled to the outer probe housing and to the probe head portion and is configured to apply a force to the probe head portion in a distal direction for maintaining the probe in position against a surface of interest during examination thereof, while permitting axial movement of the probe head portion within the outer probe housing. The constant force spring comprises at least one rolled ribbon spring that is wound about at least one pulley that is coupled to the extension of the probe head portion and moves axially together with the probe head portion within and relative to the outer probe housing.
US12247995B2
The sensor module includes a plurality of inertial measurement units having an angular velocity sensor device, an acceleration sensor device, and a signal processing circuit configured to process an output signal from the angular velocity sensor device and the acceleration sensor device, and an oscillation circuit configured to generate a synchronizing clock which synchronizes the plurality of inertial measurement units. Further, the oscillation circuit is provided to one of the inertial measurement units.
US12247985B2
The invention provides methods of detecting transthyretin (TTR) using a capture antibody and a reporter antibody. The capture antibody binds preferentially to misfolded TTR over native tetrameric form of TTR. The capture antibody binds to an epitope within amino acid residues 89-97 or TTR or to an epitope within amino acid residues 101-109 of TTR. 9D5 and 18C5 are examples of suitable capture antibodies. The methods can be used for diagnosing diseases or disorders associated with TTR accumulation or accumulation of TTR deposits (e.g., TTR amyloidosis) and for monitoring the efficacy of TTR therapies, among other applications.
US12247981B2
A method of diagnosing cancer based on lipidomic analysis of a body fluid taken from the body of a patient is disclosed. The method includes the steps of spiking of the sample with a set of internal standards having at least one internal standard for each lipid class present in the sample, subsequently processing the sample by liquid-liquid lipidomic extraction or by solid phase lipidomic extraction, measurement of the processed sample by a mass spectrometry method, determining concentrations for at least 51, more preferably for all lipids present at a level above detection threshold of the mass spectrometry method, statistical evaluation of the determined concentrations of the lipids, the statistical evaluation determining the level of probability of the patient suffering from cancer, or optionally from a specific type of cancer.
US12247980B2
Methods are provided for identifying biomarker proteins that exhibit differential expression in subjects with a first lung condition versus healthy subjects or subjects with a second lung condition. Also provided are compositions comprising these biomarker proteins and methods of using these biomarker proteins or panels thereof to diagnose, classify, and monitor various lung conditions. The methods and compositions provided herein may be used to diagnose or classify a subject as having lung cancer or a non-cancerous condition, and to distinguish between different types of cancer (e.g., malignant versus benign, SCLC versus NSCLC).
US12247978B2
The present disclosure includes a multiplexed peptide assay to generate an epitope-resolved view of antibody reactivity across all human coronaviruses (CoVs). PepSeq accurately classifies SARS-CoV-2 exposure status and reveals epitopes across the Spike and Nucleocapsid proteins. Two of these represent recurrent reactivities to conserved, functionally-important sites in the S2 subunit of Spike, regions that we show are also targeted for the endemic CoVs in pre-pandemic controls. At one of these sites, we demonstrate that the SARS-CoV-2 response strongly and recurrently cross-reacts with the endemic virus hCoV-OC43. The disclosed epitope-resolved analysis reveals new CoV targets for the development of diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, including a site that may have broad neutralizing potential.
US12247977B2
The present disclosure provides methods for determining the presence or absence of and/or the etiology of an acute respiratory viral infection in a subject, as well as methods of treating the subject based on the determination, by measuring on a platform the expression levels of a pre-defined set of gene products.
US12247976B2
Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for concentration and detection of sample components. In particular, provided herein are lateral flow devices, systems, and methods that utilize flow control of samples.
US12247970B2
Chemical test methods for evaluating the alkali-silica reactivity (ASR) of an aggregate or an aggregate within a particular concrete job mix design by exposing the aggregate to a simplified system with the same or simulated long-term pore solution conditions is provided. ASR is a chemical reaction occurring between alkaline hydroxides within cement paste and certain types of amorphous silica found in mineral aggregates. Causing an accumulation of internal pressure within concrete structures due to the formation of a hygroscopic gel through the absorption of water, ASR leads to expansion and cracking of concrete. The present test method determines the reactivity index (RI) of a given aggregate, or an aggregate as it is to be used in a proposed concrete job mix design by determining the average concentrations of calcium, aluminum, and silicon across multiple tested samples, wherein the RI is the ratio of the concentrations of silicon to that of aluminum and calcium combined.
US12247967B2
A method based on sensor information of a MOX sensor. Sensor information captured at different operating temperatures in different freshness state determination cycles determines a freshness state of a food. Additional information relating to a food is determined. A storage container, a computer program product, and a household cooling appliance for carrying out the method.
US12247963B2
An analysis system includes a setting device, an execution device, a determination device, and a notification device, and analyzes a sample by combining functions of a plurality of units. The setting device sets an analysis condition for each of the plurality of units. The execution device can execute the function of each of the plurality of units prior to the analysis of the sample. The determination device determines whether preparation for starting the analysis is completed for each of the plurality of units based on a comparison between a state of the unit and the analysis condition corresponding to the unit. The notification device notifies an analyst of a determination result by the determination device.
US12247962B2
Methods and devices for the washing, extraction, and separation of a sample in a disposable chromatography cartridge (201) comprising a barrel (204) and a column (205), and especially including reinforcement to the column permitting high-pressure separation.
US12247957B1
The present invention discloses a pin-on-disk type in-situ current-carrying friction testing system, and belongs to the technical field of friction performance testing. The friction testing system includes a pin-on-disk type friction pair, a current loading mechanism, and a magnetic field generating mechanism. The current loading mechanism includes a conductive terminal abutting against an annular sidewall of a disk specimen and used to guide a current in the disk specimen to flow along a horizontal direction, and the magnetic field generating mechanism is used to generate a magnetic field. When a pin specimen and a disk specimen rotate relatively, the pin specimen, the conductive terminal, and the magnetic field generating mechanism are relatively stationary, and an Ampere force generated by the current in the disk specimen flowing in the horizontal direction under the action of the magnetic field faces a support platform.
US12247955B2
In a material testing machine including a load actuator including a shaft configured to make a linear motion, and configured to apply a load to a test piece through the linear motion of the shaft, the load actuator includes a bearing configured to support the shaft, and the bearing serves as an air bearing.
US12247954B2
Provided are containers that are useful for the collection and analysis of materials, which typically comprise solid material, such as geologic material samples, such as drill cuttings, core samples, drilling muds, or similar materials. Such containers comprise a barrier component that forms an inner chamber for isolating a material and a compressible or collapsible section that is adapted to be compressed by application of a force, but without rupture or other disruption that would result in the loss of volatile compounds contained in the container (such as volatile compounds released from the material). The containers can be sealed by a seal component, which can be punctured by a component (e.g., a needle) permitting the flow of gaseous material from the interior of the container when a force is applied through the puncturing component. In aspects, the containers comprise a sample material, such as a drill cutting or other geologic material.
US12247953B2
A device for a creep test and a test system and a method using the device are provided. The device for the creep test includes a device frame, a test piece clamp, a load loading mechanism and linear displacement sensors. A test piece is arranged in a middle of the test piece clamp. A first end of the test piece clamp is a fixed end, a position of the fixed end is unchanged relative to the device frame. A second end of the test piece clamp is a movable end. The load loading mechanism includes a pulley block and a load. A system for a tensile and compressive creep test includes a box body which is sealable. The box body is provided with a box door which is provided with a constant temperature and humidity device. The device for the creep test is arranged in the box body.
US12247942B2
A glucose sensor includes an insulating metal oxide layer and at least one pair of metallic electrodes arranged on the insulating metal oxide layer and separated by a gap containing the metal oxide layer. In operation, a probe including a voltage supply and current sensor can provide a voltage difference across the first and second metallic electrodes while a sample is present across the gap between the electrodes. A measured current between the first and second metallic electrodes when the voltage difference is provided can be correlated to a glucose level of the sample.
US12247940B2
A fluid property sensing array includes a first sensor including a first electrode assembly and a first sensing layer at least partially coating the first electrode assembly, the first sensor having a first response to a property of the fluid; and a second sensor including a second electrode assembly and a second sensing layer at least partially coating the second electrode assembly, the second sensor having a second response to the property of the fluid. The array can include a third sensor including a third electrode assembly and a third sensing layer at least partially coating the third electrode assembly, the third sensor having a third response to the property of the fluid. The first sensing layer, the second sensing layer, and the third sensing layer can be compositionally different, such that the first response, the second response, and the third response to the property of the fluid are different.
US12247936B2
A system and method for distillation testing of a liquid sample at atmospheric pressure for the improved prediction of the heating necessary to reach the initial boiling point (IBP) and ensure the IBP is observed within certain time constraints, and regardless of sample composition. This monitors the sample by the camera during different heating phases of the test to obtain visual images of the sample and a computer analyzes image data observed to regulate the optimal distillation process.
US12247925B2
An estimation apparatus performs non-contact estimation of a friction coefficient of a road surface. The estimation apparatus includes at least one processor. The processor determines a state of the road surface and determine which of preset road-surface states the state of the road surface belongs to. The processor performs primary identification of a first range of a friction coefficient corresponding to the determined road-surface state on the basis of friction coefficient information and the determined state of the road surface. The friction coefficient information is sectioned for each of the road-surface states. The processor narrows down a range of the friction coefficient from the first range to a second range on the basis of the identified first range of the friction coefficient, and thereby perform secondary identification of the friction coefficient of the road surface. The second range is narrower than the first range.
US12247920B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for characterizing the interaction of free radicals with various materials and the use of known interactions to isolate free radical generation from free radical interaction with a target molecule.
US12247916B2
Provided is an identification method of plastic microparticles, including: performing an infrared analysis on plastic microparticles to identify whether the plastic microparticles include polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, or nylon 66, wherein the identification is to determine whether the plastic microparticles have a characteristic peak of each plastic, and the characteristic peak is selected from signals that do not overlap and interfere with each other in the infrared spectrum signals of each plastic.
US12247913B2
Systems and methods for analysing milk are described. A plurality of First Type Sensors (FTPs) are provided, each associated with a respective one of a plurality of Milking Clusters (MKs) of a milking system and configured to analyse milk extracted from an animal by the MK to determine at least one FTP value of a parameter of the milk across an event period. At least one of a Second Type Sensor (STP) associated with at least one of the plurality of MKs is configured to analyse the milk to determine at least one STP value of the parameter within the event period, wherein the STP is less susceptible to animal specific bias than the FTP. An Animal Specific Bias Correction (ASBC) is determined based on the at least one FTP value and the at least one STP value and applied to FTP values for milk extracted from the animal.
US12247911B2
An apparatus for artificial weathering or lightfastness testing of samples comprises a weathering chamber, a first light source provided in the weathering chamber, the first light source comprising one or more fluorescent UV lamps each comprising an emission spectrum with a maximum wavelength below a predetermined wavelength, and a second light source provided in the weathering chamber, the second light source comprising one or more light emitting diodes each comprising an emission spectrum with a maximum wavelength above the predetermined wavelength.
US12247908B2
A detection device and a detection method for distinguishing types of particles in an aqueous solution are provided. The detection device includes a detection chip, a signal source and a processing device. The detection chip includes a substrate, a coplanar waveguide transmission line and a super-hydrophobic film mask. When a to-be-detected aqueous solution that contains to-be-detected particles is provided on the detection chip, the super-hydrophobic film mask of the detection chip can confine the to-be-detected aqueous solution in a detection area. The processing device controls the signal source to provide detection microwave signals with different detection frequencies, simultaneously measures a first output signal and a second output signal at the different detection frequencies to generate a to-be-detected absorption spectrum, and compares the to-be-detected absorption spectrum with historical absorption spectra, so as to determine types of the to-be-detected particles.
US12247895B1
A method for predicting dummy head injury during an automobile collision includes: enabling a dummy head to collide with a rigid flat plate; obtaining a first data set in a collision process; calculating the maximum contact force of the dummy head and the rigid flat plate in the collision process according to the first data set; dividing a duration of the collision process into a plurality of time intervals; and calculating an injury value of the dummy head in each time interval according to the maximum contact force, and selecting the maximum injury value as a target injury value. The method provided by the present application may realize prediction for the head injury under different scene working conditions, and has the advantages of being simple in test flow, and high in prediction precision.
US12247894B2
A drive bearing includes an element rotatably mounted and which comprises magnetized magnetostrictive material. A torque can be applied to the element and the magnetostrictive magnetized material is formed to generate at a first position outside the element a magnetic field as a function of the torque applied. A measuring circuit comprises a first magnetic field sensor for detecting a total magnetic field at the first position, the total magnetic field comprising the magnetic field generated by the magnetostrictive magnetized material and an external magnetic field. The first magnetic field sensor outputs a first signal as a function of the total magnetic field detected. A second magnetic field sensor detects the external magnetic field at a second position and outputs a second signal as a function of the external magnetic field detected. The measuring circuit determines a value of the torque applied using the first and the second signals.
US12247886B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for calibrating a first sensor in a changing operating environment by a calibration process. Sensor data are received from the first sensor and sensor values are received from a known calibrating sensor. A sensor specific model is maintained for the first sensor. Calibration needs are detected by estimating a drift and an error, taking into account a difference of sensor values to the known calibrating sensor and further taking into account a sensor profile of the first sensor. A correction factor or a correction model is estimated to the sensor data using said difference and used for calibrating the sensor. The correction factor or the correction model is derived from the sensor specific model.
US12247872B2
A light receiving device according to the present disclosure includes: a light receiving element that generates a signal in response to reception of a photon; a readout circuit that reads out a signal generated by the light receiving element; and a protection circuit that is provided between the light receiving element and the readout circuit and protects a circuit element of the readout circuit from overvoltage. Further, a distance measuring device according to the present disclosure includes a light receiving device of the above configuration.
US12247869B2
The present invention introduces a high-power beam profiling system with versatile beam sampling capabilities, designed specifically for measuring multi-kilowatt laser beams. To overcome the limitations of traditional sampling devices that scan the laser beam for measurements, my invention employs a rotating beam sampler. This sampler swiftly traverses the beam for a brief period, capturing a momentary sample which is then reflected to a preferred measuring device such as a camera beam profiler. By capturing a snapshot of the beam, the camera determines the beam size efficiently. The device is inherently cooled by the rotating sampler's movement in the air, coupled with the assistance of external cooling nozzles. It comprises a low-reflectivity mirror, a mechanical arrangement for precise positioning of the mirror, a rotating motor, an additional low-reflectivity mirror, a beam profiling camera, and the necessary micro-controller and algorithm for image processing and calculating the beam profiles.
US12247861B2
A wireless flow rate apparatus measures flow rate in a fluid-conductive conduit and includes: the fluid conductive conduit comprising a non-rigid wall; a wireless sensor network including a flow sensor that detects vibrations of the fluid-conductive conduit, produces a sensor signal; and a wireless node that receives the sensor signal and wirelessly communicates the sensor signal; a base station that wirelessly receives the sensor signal; and a flow rate analyzer that receives the sensor signal from the base station and determines the flow rate of fluid in the fluid-conductive conduit from the sensor signal.
US12247860B2
A flow sensor including a fluid flow path, a first sensor configured to determine a first measurement of a thermal diffusivity and/or a viscosity of a fluid in the fluid flow path, a second sensor configured to determine a second measurement of a fluid flow velocity and/or a volumetric flow rate of the fluid in the fluid flow path, and at least one processor configured to adjust the second measurement based on the first measurement. A method including receiving fluid in a fluid flow path of a flow sensor, determining a first measurement of a thermal diffusivity and/or a viscosity of the fluid in the fluid flow path, determining a second measurement of a fluid flow velocity and/or a volumetric flow rate of the fluid in the fluid flow path, and adjusting the second measurement based on the first measurement.
US12247856B2
A micro-displacement measurement system having a picometer scale resolution and a measurement method. The measurement system comprises a probe module, a demodulation optical path module, a static lock-in amplification module, an upper computer module, and a micro-displacement drive module. The probe module comprises a measurement FBG sensor, a matching FBG sensor, a precision stainless steel needle tube, and an external support; the demodulation optical path module comprises an ASE broadband light source, a first circulator, a second circulator, and an InGaAs photodetector; the upper computer module comprises a data acquisition card and a computer; and the micro-displacement drive module comprises a piezoelectric ceramic nano-positioner, a piezoelectric ceramic driver, a three-dimensional precision micro-motion platform.
US12247853B2
Systems and methods for detecting a plunger movement condition with respect to a solenoid coil are described. A method may include generating a first derivative signal waveform of a current flowing in the solenoid coil, identifying whether there is at least one zero crossing point in the first derivative signal waveform, and detecting the plunger movement condition according to an identification result indicating whether there is at least one zero crossing point in the first derivative signal waveform.
US12247850B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to obstruction detector assemblies, systems, and related methods for detecting obstructions along oil and gas equipment. In one implementation, an obstruction detector assembly includes a driver housing having an internal chamber and a plurality of fastener openings. The obstruction detector assembly includes a driver stem disposed at least partially in the internal chamber of the driver housing. The driver stem is movable partially out of the internal chamber of the driver housing. The obstruction detector assembly includes a driver head disposed outside of the driver housing and coupled to the driver stem. In one implementation, movement of the driver stem and the driver head is used to detect obstructions (such as a wireline) in a wellhead structure. In one implementation, movement of the driver stem and the driver head is used to detect obstructions (such as sand) in a valve.
US12247846B2
An electronics system has a board with a thermal interface having an exposed surface. A thermoelectric device is placed against the thermal interface to heat the board. Heat transfers through the board from a first region where the thermal interface is located to a second region where an electronics device is mounted. The electronics device has a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the electronics device. The temperature of the electronics device is used to calibrate an accelerometer and a gyroscope in the electronics device. Calibration data includes a temperature and a corresponding acceleration offset and a corresponding angle offset. A field computer simultaneously senses a temperature, an acceleration and an angle from the temperature sensor, accelerometer and gyroscope and adjusts the measured data with the offset data at the same temperature. The field computer provides corrected data to a controlled system.
US12247843B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a three-dimensional path display method, device, computer-readable storage medium, electronic apparatus and computer program product. Therein the method comprises: determining, from a target three-dimensional space, a first sampling-point set comprising points; based on the first sampling-point set, generating a curve indicating the three-dimensional path to be generated; based on the curve, generating the three-dimensional path comprising a path region set, wherein the three-dimensional path passes through the points of the first sampling-point set; determining a mapping relationship between vertices of respective path regions in the path region set and pixels in a preset two-dimensional picture; according to the mapping relationship, inserting corresponding pixels into path regions in the path region set; and displaying the three-dimensional path after the pixels are inserted.
US12247842B2
A computing device may implement a method for creating and providing reminders during navigation sessions. The method may include initiating a navigation session for providing a set of navigation instructions to a user from a starting location to a destination location along a route, and receiving, from a user during the navigation session, an input including a request to create a reminder. The method may further include analyzing the input to determine: (i) a content of the reminder, and (ii) a trigger condition for providing the reminder, the trigger condition including a trigger location on the route, and storing the reminder, including the content and the trigger condition. The method may also include, detecting, during a subsequent navigation session, the trigger condition, and, in response to detecting the trigger condition, providing the reminder.
US12247841B2
An interactive device to perform speech interaction with a speaker includes a recognition section, an input/output section, an information generation section, an identification section, and a control section. The recognition section is configured to recognize audience members around the speaker. The input/output section is configured to input and output information as speech. The information generation section is configured to generate second information in response to first information that has been input to the input/output section. The identification section is configured to identify a speaker who spoke the first information. The control section is configured to judge whether or not the second information is information favorable to the speaker identified by the identification section, and to cause the second information to be output from the input/output section in cases in which the second information is judged to be favorable.
US12247839B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to divide a plurality of waypoints in a geographic area into a plurality of clusters according to at least one metric, arrange the clusters into an upper-level ordering by executing an optimization algorithm, arrange the waypoints within the respective clusters into a plurality of respective lower-level orderings by executing the optimization algorithm on the respective clusters, and output the waypoints in a final ordering by concatenating the waypoints in the lower-level orderings according to the upper-level ordering. The final ordering defines a final route passing through the waypoints in the final ordering.
US12247833B2
A wall shape measurement device includes a wall distance acquisition part, a wall shape calculation part, a sudden change determination part, and an extrapolation part. The wall distance acquisition part repeatedly determines whether a wall-like object installed along the road is detected, and acquires, in response to the wall-like object being detected, a wall distance value indicating the distance to the wall-like object. The wall shape calculation part calculates a plurality of wall shape values using the traveling track of the vehicle and a plurality of past wall distance values. The sudden change determination part determines whether the wall distance value is suddenly changed, based on a preset sudden change determination condition. In response to the wall distance value being suddenly changed, the extrapolation part extrapolates wall shape values after it is determined that the wall distance value is suddenly changed.
US12247831B2
A method of inspecting flatness of substrate is provided and includes providing a substrate. N first inspecting points are selected from the surface of the substrate along a first straight line, where the coordinate of the i-th first inspecting point is (Xi,Yi,Zi). By using a formula “ D = ∑ i = 1 N - 1 ( X i + 1 - X i ) 2 + ( Y i + 1 - Y i ) 2 + ( Z i + 1 - Z i ) 2 ” , a first measurement length D is calculated. By using a formula “F=(D−S)/S”, a first flatness index F is calculated. S is the horizontal distance between 1st first inspecting point and N-th first inspecting point. When the first flatness index F is larger than a first threshold, the substrate is determined to be unqualified.
US12247830B2
A method and system for measuring signal loss in a fiber optic cable. The tail ends of reference and test fiber optic cables are illuminated with a diffuse light. The head end of each of the reference and test fiber optic cables are positioned in a measurement area. A core imager captures an image of the core of each head-end while it is in the measurement area. Reference and test radiant fluxes emitted from the reference and test head-ends are determined from the respective core images. The relative signal loss of the test fiber optic cable is then determined by comparing the test radiant flux to the reference radiant flux.
US12247824B1
A heterodyne interferometer and a measurement method based on multi-target opposite displacement measurement are provided, technical points including: An output path of the laser source is sequentially arranged with a first beam splitter and a second beam splitter arranged in parallel on left and right sides, and both of which are polarization beam splitters; a first reflector is arranged above the first beam splitter, a third reflector is arranged on a right side of the second beam splitter, a second plane reflector is arranged in front of the second beam splitter, and a first plane reflector is arranged behind the second beam splitter; the first plane reflector and the second plane reflector jointly constitute a second reflector group; a left side of the first beam splitter is provided with a first photodetector and a second photodetector. The present invention realizes the measurement of relative displacement between opposing objects.
US12247819B2
A high strength polymer-based cartridge casing can include an upper polymer component, molded from a polymer. The upper component has a first end having a mouth, at least a wall between the first end and a second end of the upper component opposite the first end, an overlap portion extending from the wall near the second end. An upper insert is included and has a first end and an opposing second end, a molded area disposed approximate the first end, that engages the overlap portion to join the upper polymer component and the upper insert, and an insert engagement area disposed approximate to the second end. Further, a lower insert has a front end and a back end, an upper insert engagement area engaging with the insert engagement area, a rim and groove disposed around an outside of the lower insert, and a primer pocket disposed inside the back end. Lastly, a flash hole is inside the lower insert and communicates between the primer pocket and upper polymer component.
US12247814B1
A method for uniformly sizing polymer-based cartridge necks in ammunition cartridges includes providing a neck sizer and aligning the polymer cartridge below the neck sizer. The cartridge is pressed into the neck sizer where the pressing step causes the cartridge neck to be compressed in the neck sizer so as to reduce the inner diameter of the cartridge neck to less than the maximum outer diameter of the bullet to be fired from the cartridge. The pressing step may also involve compressing excess polymer material from the cartridge neck through flutes in the collet die of the neck sizer to form external neck ribs about the outer surface of the neck. The neck ribs aid in concentrically aligning the polymer cartridge in the chamber of a firearm to improve accuracy of the bullet fired therefrom.
US12247811B2
An armor plate consists of a material comprising a cermet, and the armor plate has a density in the range from 5.0 to 6.5 g/cm3. An armor plate composite and an armor are provided as well.
US12247791B2
An element for an easily scalable thermal energy storage, distinctive in that the element includes an outer shell being a combined casting form and reinforcement, a solid thermal storage medium in the form of hardened concrete, which concrete has been cast and hardened into said outer shell. A method for building and use of the element is also disclosed.
US12247790B2
A heat storage device of the present disclosure includes a latent heat storage material and a container. The latent heat storage material is water-soluble. The container houses the latent heat storage material and is formed of a main material being aluminum or an aluminum alloy. The container has a joining portion and a first coating. The first coating covers at least the joining portion on an inner surface of the container. On a surface of the first coating, a first element and fluorine are present. The first element is an element other than aluminum and having a lower ionization tendency than potassium.
US12247786B2
A system including a graphite electrode having a graphite body with first and second opposed ends. The electrode further includes a threaded connector positioned at one of the first or second ends, and a tag coupled to or positioned in the threaded connector, wherein the tag is configured to transmit a signal including information relating to the electrode.
US12247781B2
A system for separating carbon dioxide from a carrier gas includes a CO2 enrichment subsystem that receives a carrier gas stream and produces an enriched carbon dioxide fluid stream. The system also includes a CO2 polishing subsystem in fluid communication with the CO2 enrichment subsystem that produces a carbon dioxide rich fluid stream. In a corresponding method, a carrier gas is received in a CO2 enrichment subsystem and an enriched carbon dioxide fluid stream is produced. The enriched carbon dioxide fluid stream is directed to a CO2 polishing subsystem wherein a stream further enriched in carbon dioxide is produced.
US12247778B2
A vacuum adiabatic body of the present embodiment may include a first plate, a second plate, a seal configured to seal the first plate and the second plate to provide a vacuum space, and a support configured to maintain the vacuum space. Alternatively, the support may include a first support having a first support plate formed in a grid shape, and a plurality of spacer coupling portions configured to protrude from the first support plate. Alternatively, the support may include a second support having a second support plate formed in a grid shape, and a plurality of spacers protruding from the second support plate and coupled to each of the plurality of spacer coupling parts to form a plurality of bars together with the plurality of spacer coupling parts. Alternatively, the support may include a radiation resistance sheet supported by a portion of the plurality of bars and spaced apart from at least one of the first support plate and the second support plate. Alternatively, each of the support plates may include a plurality of through-holes. Alternatively, a plurality of distribution structures generated after injection molding the first and second supports and spaced apart from each other may be provided in some of the plurality of through-holes of each support plate.
US12247772B2
A heat transfer system that includes one or more heat exchangers and one or more variable control pumps that control flow through the one or more heat exchangers. At least one variable control pump is on the source side of the heat exchanger for controlling flow of a first circulation medium and at least one flow controlling mechanical device is on the load side of the heat exchanger for controlling flow of a second circulation medium. Sensors are used for detecting variables of the first circulation medium and the second circulation medium. At least one controller is configured to control at least one parameter of the first circulation medium or the second circulation medium by controlling at least one of the variable control pump or the flow controlling mechanical device using a feed forward control loop calculated from the detected variables to achieve control of the at least one parameter.
US12247771B2
The present disclosure relates to a HVAC system operable to use a refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit to heat or cool an indoor space and includes a defrost circuit connected to the refrigerant circuit. The defrost circuit includes a first three-way valve, a defrost line, a defrost passage in an outdoor heat exchanger, and a defrost return line. When the HVAC system is in a defrost mode, a four-way valve is operable to direct the refrigerant flow in a second direction through the outdoor heat exchanger. The first three-way valve is operable to divert some or all of the refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit and through the defrost circuit to defrost the outdoor heat exchanger. The defrost return line returns the diverted refrigerant to the refrigerant circuit upstream of an expansion device and downstream of the indoor heat exchange with respect to the second direction.
US12247767B2
An economizer and an air conditioning system. The economizer includes a housing with a refrigerant inlet for connecting to a first heat exchanger, a refrigerant outlet for connecting to a second heat exchanger, and a suction port for connecting to an intermediate stage of a compressor provided thereon; and a choke portion configured to protrude inwardly from an inner wall of the housing and arranged close to the suction port, such that refrigerant flowing to the suction port is at least partially obstructed. According to the technical solutions of the present application, the refrigerant flowing to the suction port can be at least partially obstructed. When the liquid droplets carried by the refrigerant are obstructed by the choke portion, the liquid droplets are adsorbed on the wall surface to form a liquid film, and the movement of the liquid film is obstructed by the choke portion.
US12247759B2
Systems and methods for providing dehumidification to an enclosed space can include a dehumidification unit in a supply air plenum that receives return air and a regeneration unit in a scavenger air plenum that receives outdoor air. The system can operate in a wet mode and a dry mode, depending on outdoor air conditions and a relative humidity setpoint for the enclosed space. The dehumidification unit and regeneration unit are both operational in the wet mode to dehumidify the return air and regenerate dilute desiccant. In the dry mode, the dehumidification unit and regeneration unit are not needed, and dry outdoor air can be supplied to the enclosed space. A heat recovery system utilizes waste heat from either return air or scavenger air, depending on the operating mode, to heat the outdoor air before it is supplied to the enclosed space or before it is used for regenerating desiccant.
US12247754B2
A heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) control system comprising: a smart base attached to a building; and a hub which is dockable to the smart base; wherein: the smart base comprises: a user interface for controlling a limited set of HVAC parameters; and a wireless communication module; the hub comprises: a user interface for controlling a comprehensive set of HVAC parameters; and a wireless communication module; and wherein the hub and the smart base are configured to enable the hub user interface to control the comprehensive set of HVAC parameters if the hub is docked to the smart base; or the hub is undocked from the smart base and the hub is within communication range of the smart base over the low power wireless network.
US12247749B2
An air conditioning system is provided with an integrated heat exchanger. The air conditioning system generates heating air or cooling air through the integrated heat exchanger that adjusts the temperature of conditioning air by circulating coolant, thus securing cooling and heating efficiency. The air conditioning system adjusts temperature by the coolant circulated in the integrated heat exchanger such that a temperature adjustment door for adjusting the temperature of the conditioning air is eliminated, the number of components is decreased, and the size of an overall package is reduced.
US12247744B2
An opening is defined in a wall, the opening defining a plurality detents along a lower edge thereof. A vent cover affixed to the outer wall such that the vent cover is rotatable to cover and uncover the opening. An indexing mechanism selectively fits into each of the plurality of detents and retain the vent cover from rotation.
US12247739B2
A system includes a gas turbine having a turbine shaft disposed along a rotational axis, a turbine casing disposed circumferentially about the turbine shaft, a combustion gas path disposed between the turbine shaft and the turbine casing, and a turbine stage disposed in the combustion gas path. The turbine stage includes a plurality of turbine vanes disposed upstream from a plurality of turbine blades. The gas turbine includes an isothermal expansion system coupled to the turbine stage, wherein the isothermal expansion system includes a plurality of flame stabilizers configured to vary axial positions of combustion within a turbine stage expansion of the turbine stage to reduce temperature variations over the turbine stage expansion. The flame stabilizers are disposed in different axial positions over an axial length between leading and trailing edges of the turbine blades, wherein at least one flame stabilizer is coupled to each of the turbine blades.
US12247736B2
A compact thermal oxidizer is disclosed, comprising a combustion chamber and a series of ducts including a first duct, a second duct, a third duct, and a fourth duct. The combustion chamber is connected to the first duct, which in turn directs fluid flow into the second duct in an antiparallel direction to the combustion chamber. The second duct is linked to the third duct, which guides the fluid flow into the fourth duct, in aa direction antiparallel to the flow in the second duct and parallel to the flow in the combustion chamber. A refractory lining is disposed on the interior surfaces of the combustion chamber, first duct, and second duct.
US12247734B2
A rotatable and removable connection for use in a welding torch assembly that allows for the gooseneck to be removeable and rotatable by the use of an interference member that allows the welding torch assembly to enter a locked, unlocked and partially lock state by moving the interface member about the central axis of the welding torch assembly, the partially lock state allows for rotation of the gooseneck without allowing for removal of the gooseneck, and the electrical connection provides electrical conduction via a conduction member that is independent form the locking features of the welding torch assembly.
US12247729B2
A light including a housing having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a central axis. The lower portion defines a battery port. The upper portion acts as a lens. The light further includes a heat sink extending upward from the lower portion of the housing and including a body defining a central aperture. A plurality of light support surfaces are arranged around a perimeter of the body and a top support member is coupled to and oriented perpendicularly relative to the plurality of light support surfaces. The light further includes a first plurality of LEDs coupled to the plurality of light support surfaces and a second plurality of LEDs supported on the top support member. The light further includes a first battery pack and a second battery pack, both of which are electrically connected to the first and second pluralities of LEDs when received in the battery port.
US12247726B2
A support rail for luminaires or electrical units (60) has a support rail profile (50), which encloses an elongated receiving space, along with at least one busbar (55), arranged in the receiving space, with contactable conductors (58), wherein the support rail (50) further has, on its outside, display means (10) for visually representing the function of the conductors (58).
US12247725B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a light emitting apparatus comprising a housing portion that is rotatably coupled to a base portion, wherein the housing portion is adjustable on two axes of rotation. In certain embodiments, the housing portion may be selectively disconnected from the base portion. The light emitting apparatus may comprise at least one LED operably engaged with at least one LED driver and a potentiometer to enable a selectively variable lumen output. In accordance with certain embodiments, the housing portion comprises at least one lens portion configured to enable one or more interchangeable/modifiable beam spread optics.
US12247722B2
The present disclosure is directed to a mounting bracket for mounting a driver to a housing of a luminaire, generally comprising a base member configured for attaching the mounting bracket to the housing of the luminaire and a pair of flanges extending laterally from the base member, each flange defining a clamp portion for engaging the driver to releasably attach the driver to the mounting bracket for mounting the driver to the housing of the luminaire.
US12247721B1
A lighting fixture, a lighting device, a light source component, a lampshade, and a fixing base are provided. The lampshade is disposed around an exterior of the light source component, the lampshade includes a first lampshade body and a second lampshade body, the first lampshade body is detachably connected to the second lampshade body. The fixing base is detachably connected to the first lampshade body and the second lampshade body, and is configured to fix the first lampshade body and the second lampshade body. The lighting fixture and the lighting device are capable of reducing space required for transportation and storage and further improving logistics efficiency.
US12247719B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of use of flexible light-emitting filaments in outdoor solar lamps, and in particular to, a solar magnetic suction linear lamp, including a locating structure, wherein the locating structure includes a lamp frame; a transparent lampshade is arranged in an inner cavity of the lamp frame; and a lighting structure is arranged in the inner cavity of the lamp frame. After a light bar is turned on, a lamp base is plugged into the lamp frame; a steel locating head extends into the transparent lampshade; the steel locating head is sucked through a strong magnet and is located through the magnetism of the strong magnet; the light bar is pulled through the steel locating head; a mounting plate and the lamp base are located through the light bar.
US12247716B2
A recessed luminaire includes a housing supporting a light emitter, an intumescent material coupled to an outer surface of the housing, and a plate coupled to the housing and to the intumescent material. The housing configured to be positioned at least partially through a ceiling. The housing also includes a stepped surface. The intumescent material has a shape complementary to a shape of the housing. The plate is positioned adjacent to the stepped surface and to an upper surface of the intumescent material.
US12247714B2
A light emitting apparatus is supported by a second support supported by a first support laterally relative to the first support alongside an imaging apparatus, and emits light to be detected by the imaging apparatus. The light emitting apparatus includes a light source that emits the light and a lens on which the light emitted from the light source is incident and that transmits the light incident on the lens. The lens includes a part provided with a dimmer that at least partially reduces light to be emitted to the first support out of the light incident on the lens.
US12247712B2
A vehicle light fixture include a first light distribution illuminator that emits a first light distribution to the front of a vehicle, and a second light distribution illuminator that emits a second light distribution having a light-dark boundary line at least on a side of the vehicle, wherein illumination of the first light distribution illuminator and the second light distribution illuminator is controlled in response to a predetermined operation of the first light distribution illuminator by the driver of the vehicle. The second light distribution illuminator includes a light source, and a projection lens that projects light emitted from the light source to form an illumination pattern surrounded by multiple light-dark boundary lines and emit the illumination pattern to a side of the vehicle, and the projection lens focuses more of the light emitted from the light source passing outwardly from the optical axis of the projection lens.
US12247708B2
A tactical chemical light stick dispenser to provide the ability of a user to quickly and accurately deploy chemical light stick devices from a contained and protected chemical light stick housing device. The tactical chemical light stick dispenser employs 1.5″ chemical lights sticks that give off just the right amount of light necessary to effectively mark a room visited or identified without the need for larger chemical light sticks as seen in traditional bundles.
US12247702B2
To provide a safety joint housing device for preventing a plug or a filling hose from being locked in a lower opening of a casing when the safety joint is separated, thereby preventing a filling device from falling over and being damaged.
US12247701B2
A compressed gas storage system that includes a pressure vessel. The pressure vessel includes a first vessel portion and a second vessel portion in fluid communication with the first vessel portion. The pressure vessel includes a third vessel portion in fluid communication with the second vessel portion. The compressed gas storage system includes a first valve positioned between the first vessel portion and the second vessel portion and a second valve positioned between the second vessel portion and the third vessel portion. The first valve allows and impedes fluid flow between the first and the second vessel portions. The second valve allows and impedes fluid flow between the second and the third vessel portions.
US12247698B2
A high-pressure tank that enables end portions of a first reinforcing layer wound around a body of a liner to sufficiently contribute to the strength of dome portions of the tank. In the high-pressure tank, a reinforcing layer includes the first reinforcing layer that covers the body and a second reinforcing layer that covers the first reinforcing layer and side end portions of the liner. The first reinforcing layer includes a hoop reinforcing layer formed through hoop winding of a resin-containing fiber bundle in a midsection of the body, and a helical reinforcing layer arranged in parallel with the hoop reinforcing layer along the axis direction of the high-pressure tank and formed through helical winding of the fiber bundle in a section on at least one end side of the midsection, the helical reinforcing layer forming a part of the dome portions.
US12247697B2
A fluid reservoir configured to attach to a pump head is disclosed. The fluid reservoir may include an attachment configured to engage with a pump head socket. The attachment may include threads at an attachment outer surface portion. The fluid reservoir may further include a fluid reservoir outer body and a fluid reservoir inner body. The fluid reservoir outer body may have an interior surface and an exterior surface, and the fluid reservoir inner body may be disposed at the interior surface. The fluid reservoir inner body may be configured to store fluid. The fluid reservoir outer body and the fluid reservoir inner body may form a single piece fluid reservoir. The fluid reservoir inner body may be configured to expand longitudinally when the fluid is filled in the fluid reservoir inner body and collapse longitudinally when the fluid is dispensed from the fluid reservoir inner body.
US12247690B2
The invention relates to a clamp slide rail mounting device for the reversible attachment of a mounting slide within a profile rail, where one or more objects can be attached to the mounting slide and the mounting slide can be guided within the profile rail. The mounting slide features a spring latching element with spring latching element depressions, which is placed within a groove with groove latch projections, where a rotation of the spring latching element around a spring latching element longitudinal axis causes the groove latch projections to engage form-fittingly into the spring latching element depressions.
US12247687B2
An assembly for relining a junction between a branch pipeline and a main pipeline comprises a seal installation device capable of moving within the main pipeline to the junction. The seal installation device includes a curable seal for being placed and pressed onto the junction and optionally for extending into the branch pipeline. The assembly further comprises a light curing device for being introduced into the seal installation device within the main pipeline and the branch pipeline for curing the seal.
US12247675B2
The thermostat device includes a housing having a valve seat formed thereinside, a thermo-element having one end inserted inside the housing, a valve body seated on or separated from the valve seat by the extension/contraction of the thermo-element, a coil spring biasing the valve body toward the valve seat, and a frame supporting one end of the coil spring. The housing has a hollow body part opening at one end, paired legs erecting from the opening edge of the body part, on whose leading ends the frame is hooked, and ribs provided at the opening edge and contiguous to each root side of the legs. The outer surface of each leg is arc-shaped, and the outer surface of each rib is curved or inclined to extend from the outer surface of the corresponding leg toward the inner side of a circle connecting the outer surfaces of the pair of legs.
US12247673B2
A Schrader valve adapter and optimizer engages an HVAC flare fitting and includes an adjustment collar that controls the insertion depth of the core depressor enabling the technician to avoid blow outs and compensate for Schrader valve cores that are set at maximum insertion depth.
US12247665B2
A seal structure includes an annular female adapter, at least one annular packing, and an annular male adapter. The male adapter and the female adapter sandwich the at least one packing. The at least one packing includes a packing convex portion adjacent to the female adapter and a packing concave portion adjacent to the male adapter. The male adapter includes an adapter convex portion that contacts the packing concave portion. The female adapter includes an adapter concave portion that contacts the packing convex portion. In a state sandwiched between the male adapter and the female adapter, the at least one packing includes an inner diameter that is smaller than a diameter of the reciprocating member. The female adapter includes an inner diameter that is smaller than the diameter of the reciprocating member.
US12247663B2
Seal assemblies, gaskets, bearing assemblies, and their components can be used as pre-packaged seal systems and pre-packaged seal and bearing systems. The seal assemblies can be orientated in different configurations for different applications. Gaskets or washers to restrict flow and gaskets or washers with memory lips to operate as sealing lips can be included to increase the number of sealing points. In a pre-packaged configuration, the cylinder can be a straight cylinder, a stepped cylinder, or a split cylinder. Bearing assemblies can be pre-packaged with the sealing assemblies and service grease may optionally be used to provide lubrication and limit fluid incursion into the spring cavities.
US12247659B2
A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; and a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear, the continuously variable transmission transmitting a driving force to a wheel while changing a transmission ratio by changing groove widths of the drive pulley and the driven pulley, wherein the case includes an annular rib integrally molded with the case in a manner surrounding an outer periphery of the parking gear except for a position intersecting a swing trajectory of the parking pawl and a predetermined position.
US12247654B1
A filter configured to replace an original filter disposed in a cavity in a transmission, increases fluid flow rate through the filter. An example filter includes a bottom structure configured to mate with the bottom portion of the cavity, and the bottom structure defines an outlet through which oil passes from the cavity to the outlet of the housing. The filter also includes a filter media having a bottom portion and an opposite top portion, the bottom portion being coupled to the bottom structure of the filter. In the example filter system, the outer diameter of the bottom portion of the filter media is greater than the outer diameter of the top portion of the filter media.
US12247624B2
A follower bearing 1 includes: an inner member 10 including a first body 50 and a flange 52; an outer ring 20; a plurality of rolling elements 40; and a first sealing member 30A including an annular first portion disposed between an outer peripheral surface 52A of the flange 52 and a first surface 22A and at least partially forming a sealing structure between the first portion and the outer ring 20. The first portion has an outer diameter that gradually increases toward a first end surface 52B at an end opposite to a first rolling surface 51A of the flange 52 in an axial direction.
US12247619B2
The present disclosure relates to a low friction bearing liner for a solenoid may include a low friction layer. The low friction layer may include a first fluoropolymer matrix component and a first thermoplastic filler component distributed throughout the first fluoropolymer matrix component. The content of the first fluoropolymer matrix component may be at least about 1 wt. % and not greater than about 99 wt. % for a total weight of the first low friction layer. The content of the first thermoplastic filler component may be at least about 1 wt. % and not greater than about 99 wt. % for a total weight of the first low friction layer.
US12247606B2
To improve fastening precision and economic feasibility, the present disclosure provides a clinching-type blind hybrid fastening apparatus inserted into and fastened to a frame part through which a first coupling hole is formed in a hollow shape and on one side of an upper surface thereof and a second coupling hole is formed on a lower surface thereof, the apparatus including a body part which is inserted into the frame part and has an outer lower surface rim seated on an upper surface rim of the second coupling hole, a blind fastening part including a rivet fastening portion that integrally extends upward from the body part and has an upper end disposed above the first coupling hole, a close contact step portion that is integrally formed at an upper portion of the rivet fastening portion, and a head portion that extends outward from an upper end of the close contact step portion, and a clinching fastening part that is integrally extending downward from the body part and has a lower end disposed below the second coupling hole.
US12247602B2
A fastening apparatus for fastening a component to a carrier component includes: a bushing device having a bushing portion that delimits a receiving space for receiving a pin device; a pin device having a pin portion, wherein the bushing device and the pin device are formed from a first plastic component; and an outer casing wall of the bushing portion of the bushing device, the outer casing wall comprising at least one and preferably two diametrically opposed fastening portions for radially abutting against a recess of a carrier component, wherein each of the one or more fastening portions are formed from a second plastic component that is softer in comparison to the first plastic component.
US12247600B2
A swaged fastener (10) includes a coated collar (12) for location in use on a pin (14). In an unswaged condition, the coated collar (12) comprises a substrate material (16) having a substrate colour and an indicator material (20) having an indicator colour. The indicator material (20) is located on the substrate material (16). The indicator colour is visually different to the substrate colour. The coated collar (12) includes a swaging surface (18) to which, in use, a swaging force is applied to move the collar (12) from the unswaged condition to a swaged condition. The indicator material (20) comprises at least part of the swaging surface (18) and is arranged so that, in a correctly swaged condition, the indicator material (20) comprising the swaging surface (18) is substantially removed to expose the substrate colour and thereby provide a visual indication that the swaging process has been correctly carried out.
US12247599B2
A mechanism and method for assembling a base to a piece of furniture is provided with at least two cam pieces having complimentary interlock mechanisms constructed and arranged to interlock one to another to form a cam. A plurality of interlock mechanisms may be provided, as well as a plurality of positioning elements on respective cam pieces.
US12247597B2
An input device assembly with a support pad is provided. The input device assembly includes the support pad and an input device. The support pad includes a first main body and a first magnetic attraction element. The first main body has a first bottom surface and a first curvy surface. The input device includes a second main body and at least one second magnetic attraction element. The second main body has a second bottom surface and a second curvy surface. The first curvy surface of the support pad is contactable with one of plural portions of the second curvy surface of the input device. The first magnetic attraction element and one of the at least one second magnetic attraction element are magnetically attracted by each other. Consequently, the support pad is in close contact with the input device.
US12247592B2
The present invention discloses a power system and a traveling power station, and belongs to the technical field of engineering machinery. The power system includes a first main pump, a second main pump, an auxiliary pump, a first switching unit, a first logical unit, a second logical unit, and a control system. The auxiliary pump is connected to the first switching unit. A first traveling motor is connected to the first logical unit. A second traveling motor is connected to the second logical unit. The control system is connected to the first switching unit, the first main pump, the second main pump, and the auxiliary pump. According to the present invention, the hydraulic power can be provided to transfer the drill rig, to ensure simplicity in operation and reduce risks and costs.
US12247585B2
A blower device and a respirator including the blower device. The blower device comprises a case, a blower vibration source disposed within the case and a buffering assembly for associating the blower vibration source and the case, wherein the vibration absorption assembly comprises at least two of a locating buffering member associated with a top portion of the blower vibration source, a connection buffering member in which at least a part of the blower vibration source is received and a support buffering member associated with a bottom portion of the blower vibration source. The blower device is capable of effectively buffering vibration of the blower device, decreasing noise transmission and has a simple structure.
US12247582B2
The present invention refers to a fan set that has at least one circular support (3) on which a bearing fastening ring (7) can be supported during the process of fastening the closing cover (9) on the bearing already pressed onto the shaft, facilitating the process of assembling the bearing fastening ring (7) and reducing the length of the motor. After the complete fastening of the bearing fastening ring (7), it stops touching the fan, which can rotate freely.
US12247580B2
Structures for reducing forward loads in compressors are described. A compressor includes inner and outer circumferential support structures positioned concentrically around a central axis, and an aft-most stage including a vane extending radially inward from the outer circumferential support structure. An axial length of the aft-most stage is defined by a spacer arm of the inner circumferential support structure. The vane includes a root, a tip, and a trailing edge extending between the root and the tip. A ratio of a first radial distance between a first point located at an intersection of the tip of the vane and the trailing edge to a radially inner wall of the spacer arm of the inner circumferential support structure to a second radial distance between the first point and a second point located at an intersection of the root of the vane and the trailing edge is between 0.95 and 4.5.
US12247579B2
A cooling fan has a fan shroud with a fan wheel recess surrounded by a shroud ring and a fan wheel rotatably mounted in the fan wheel recess for conveying the air flow along a conveying direction from a shroud upper side to a shroud underside. The fan wheel has a central hub cup with radially orientated blades and an outer ring connecting the blades at the blade tip ends. A circumferential ring gap is formed between the outer ring and the shroud ring. A rib structure in the ring gap reduces swirl in a gap flow orientated against the conveying direction. A shroud ring section of the shroud ring extends axially beyond the outer ring on the shroud underside. The shroud ring section is orientated parallel or at an angle of inclination and radially inwards relative to the conveying direction.
US12247568B2
A method for detecting the state of operation of a rotating machine, in particular a centrifugal pump, includes detecting using at least one first temperature sensor a change in temperature in or at least one bearing region of a rotating element of the rotating machine, identifying temperature gradients using an evaluation unit, from a temperature profile generated from the at least one temperature sensor, and identifying a switch-on and/or switch-off process of the rotational movement of the machine on the basis of a characteristic of the ascertained temperature gradient.
US12247562B2
A pump assembly includes a pump with a pump body having a discharge passage, a motor operable to drive the pump to discharge compressed air through the discharge passage, a casing at least partially surrounding the pump and the motor, and a motor mount at least partially supporting the motor within the casing. The motor mount includes an outer axial wall, an inner axial wall, a radial wall extending between the outer axial wall and the inner axial wall, a first plurality of projections extending from the radial wall toward the motor, and a second plurality of projections extending from the radial wall away from the motor.
US12247557B2
A sealing assembly for a fluid end of a reciprocating pump is installable within a segment of a casing of the fluid end and is arranged to form a seal with the segment. The sealing assembly includes a closure element and a seal element. The closure element has a sealing portion with a lateral surface that faces an interior wall of the segment of the fluid end. The seal element is sized to be installed around the closure element and includes a repositionable seal. The repositionable seal is movable axially with respect to the closure element so that the repositionable seal can be positioned in multiple sealing positions.
US12247551B2
A wind turbine generator (10) includes a tower (12), a nacelle (14) rotatably mounted to the tower (12), the nacelle having a longitudinal axis and being configured to align the longitudinal axis with the direction of the incoming wind during operation of the wind turbine generator (10), one or more heat-generating components (22) housed in the wind turbine generator (10), and a containerized HVAC module (26) mounted on a roof (31) of the nacelle (14) and operably connected to the one or more heat-generating h components (22) for cooling the heat-generating components (22). The module (26) includes a shipping container (30) having a floor (32), a roof (34), a pair opposed longer side walls (36), a pair of opposed shorter end walls (38), and a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis of the shipping container (30) being oriented generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the nacelle (14), the shipping container (30) having at least one heat exchanger (40) therein.
US12247543B2
The present invention relates to a pre-manufactured spar cap for a wind turbine blade comprising a spar cap structure comprising a plurality of fibre-reinforced composite elements arranged in stacked rows and separated by interlayers and a first and/or second damage tolerant cover sheet. The first and/or second damage tolerant cover sheets each comprises a first damage tolerant fibre layer and a second damage tolerant fibre layer attached to each other in attachment areas, wherein the attachments areas are separated from each other by a distance between 1-5 cm. Furthermore, the spar cap structure and the first and/or second damager tolerant cover sheet are embedded in a first cured resin. The present invention also relates to a damage tolerant cover sheet as such, as well as a wind turbine comprising a first and/or second damage tolerant cover sheet. Also, the present invention relates to methods of manufacturing a premanufactured spar cap, a wind turbine shell member and a wind turbine blade comprising the first and/or second damage tolerant cover sheet.
US12247540B2
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass. Passing waves cause a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting of sufficient magnitude and duration allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Flowing water is trapped at a plurality of levels which in an un-tilted apparatus are higher than the respective levels from which the fluid has flowed. A subsequent tilt of the apparatus in a sufficiently different direction, and of a sufficient magnitude and duration, causes the trapped water to flow to new, yet higher levels. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a height and/or head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be released, and/or converted to electrical power, by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine thereby energizing an operationally connected generator, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
US12247538B2
High-pressure fuel pumps and systems incorporating the same are disclosed. The fuel pump includes a housing with at least one fluid feed port, a barrel with at least one fluid receiving port, and a clamp to secure the barrel to the housing. The barrel has a first surface configured to contact a second surface of the housing to form a groove. The groove provides fluid communication between the at least one fluid feed port of the housing and the at least one fluid receiving port of the barrel.
US12247534B2
An air-fuel mixer includes a body having an inlet, an outlet, and an air passage therebetween. One or more fuel injectors are mounted to the body and positioned to inject fuel into the air passage with little or no space between the injector nozzles and the air passage. The fuel injectors may be inclined in an air-fuel mixer outlet direction whereby they inject fuel into the air passage with momentum in a direction of the outlet. Swirl guides are provided within the air passage. The air-fuel mixer may be installed between an intake manifold and an intercooler. The air-fuel mixer provides good mixing, low resistance to air flow, reduced fuel slip, and crisp responses to throttle up and throttle down commands.
US12247530B2
Provided is a canister configured to adsorb and desorb an evaporated fuel originating in a fuel tank of a vehicle. The canister includes an outer case, a coupling port, an inner case, and at least one first protrusion. The outer case includes an inner surface defining an internal space extending in a first direction. The coupling port couples an inside and an outside of the outer case. The inner case is a cylindrical member accommodating therein an adsorbent for adsorbing the evaporated fuel. The at least one first protrusion protrudes outwards from an outer surface of the inner case. A fluid flows through the internal space in the first direction. The inner case is press-fitted inside the outer case so as to be accommodated in the internal space. The at least one first protrusion contacts a part of the inner surface of the outer case extending in the first direction.
US12247529B2
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine including an airfoil body extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge and between a pressure side and a suction side. The airfoil body includes a strut portion extending from the leading edge and a flap portion extending from the trailing edge. The flap portion is pivotable relative to the strut portion. A flexible skin surrounds both the strut portion and the flap portion on both the pressure side and the suction side.
US12247527B2
In a throttle device including: a throttle shaft to which a throttle valve is secured; a motor; and a deceleration mechanism decelerating rotation of a drive shaft of the motor and transmitting the rotation to the throttle shaft, the deceleration mechanism includes a throttle gear secured to the throttle shaft, the throttle gear includes a tubular ring into which the throttle shaft is detachably inserted and a gear main body including a gear portion, and the gear main body is formed of a resin by insert processing including the ring.
US12247526B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of controlling a common rail fuel system of an engine system is provided. The common rail fuel system includes a fuel pump, a fuel rail, a plurality of fuel injectors, and a pressure-responsive relief valve fluidly coupled to the fuel rail. The method comprises identifying a pressure condition of the fuel rail indicative of the pressure-responsive relief valve being in an open and latched condition, the identification being based on detecting a rise and reduction in rail pressure within a threshold time period. The method further comprises terminating flow from the fuel pump, while the common rail fuel system is operating, to unlatch and close the pressure-responsive relief valve.
US12247525B2
A work machine and a method of controlling work machine power of the work machine during a harvesting operation for harvesting a crop. The work machine may include an engine, a hybrid machine, or an electric machine. The work machine may operate by identifying a state of a driver assistance selector that includes a manual mode and an automatic mode. While in the manual mode, the work machine may operate at a nominal power target, and, when in the automatic mode, the work machine may operate at an enhanced power target for harvesting. When the driver assistance feature changes from the automatic mode to the manual mode, the transition between the enhanced power to the nominal power may be reduced over a predetermined period of time to optimize machine drivability and system performance.
US12247520B2
An integrated circulating water cooling system includes at least one load; an air cooling sub-system; a wet surface cooling sub-system; at least one temperature sensor; a control; and a coolant circulation sub-system for fluidly circulating coolant from the at least one load to the air cooling sub-system to the wet surface cooling sub-system and back to the at least one load. The control selectively operates the wet surface cooling sub-system and the air cooling sub-system based on at least one of temperature sensed in the water circulation sub-system; or sensed ambient temperature.
US12247512B1
An anti-lag controlled ignition system includes an engine system including a turbocharger and an exhaust manifold fluidly coupled to the turbocharger. An electronic control unit (ECU) is communicatively coupled with the engine system and is configured to receive engine data from the engine system. A virtual optimization system is communicatively coupled with the ECU, and the virtual optimization system is configured to generate calibration tables in response to the engine data from the ECU. The ECU is configured to receive the generated calibration tables and is configured to reduce turbocharger lag via enthalpy calibrations for the exhaust manifold using one or more of the calibration tables.
US12247503B2
An apparatus and methods for the lubrication of the engine of an off-road vehicle, such as when the vehicle is airborne or upside down due to tipping over. The apparatus includes an upper chamber and a lower chamber. Fluid communication is established between the upper chamber and the lower chamber by way of a central tube. One or more vanes are arranged in the interior of the central tube to inhibit oil flow from the lower chamber to the upper chamber when the vehicle is upside down. An inlet hose connector is configured for receiving engine oil from an oil cooler and supplying the engine oil to the lower chamber. An outlet hose connector is configured for conducting the engine oil from the lower chamber to the engine. A bypass hose connector is configured for allowing the engine oil to exit from the upper chamber to the engine.
US12247493B2
A gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a propulsor section including a propulsor hub, the hub including a hub diameter supporting a plurality of propulsor blades. A compressor section includes a first compressor and a second compressor. A turbine section includes a first turbine and a second turbine. A geared architecture interconnects the first turbine and the propulsor hub. The geared architecture includes a gear volume. A compressor inlet passage is disposed annularly about the geared architecture.
US12247484B2
A method includes obtaining data representing a subterranean volume, the data having been collected by a user in a field, generating a digital model representing at least the subterranean volume based in part on the data, searching the digital model based in part on one or more metadata parameters, identifying one or more gaps in the model, and determining a data acquisition activity based on the one or more gaps that were identified in the model.
US12247474B2
A method may include dividing a wellplan into one or more section using a section detection algorithm, receiving a depth measurement of a drill bit or a bottom hole assembly located in a wellbore, utilizing the section detection algorithm and the depth measurement to identify a section of the wellplan from the one or more sections of the wellplan, and identifying a target based at least in part on the identified section. The method may further include determining one or more steering commands based at least in part on the target and a control algorithm and steering the bottom hole assembly to the target using the one or more steering commands.
US12247472B2
A fracturing apparatus is provided. The fracturing apparatus includes a plunger pump, a transmission shaft, a main motor, an oil pipe, a first radiator and a noise reduction cabin. The main motor is spaced apart from the plunger pump, the plunger pump is connected with the main motor through the transmission shaft; the oil pipe is configured to be connected with the plunger pump; the first radiator is spaced apart from the plunger pump, the first radiator is configured to dissipate heat from oil in the oil pipe, the main motor, the first radiator and at least part of the oil pipe are all located inside the noise reduction cabin, and the plunger pump is located outside the noise reduction cabin.
US12247471B2
Integrated energy systems, such as for use in enhanced oil recovery operations, and associated devices and methods are described herein. A representative integrated energy system can include a power plant system having multiple modular nuclear reactors. The nuclear reactors can generate steam for direct industrial use or for use in an electrical power conversion system to generate electricity. Individual ones of the nuclear reactors can be configured to generate steam or electricity based on the requirements of different stages of the oil recovery operation. For example, during a first stage, a subset of the nuclear reactors can be configured to generate steam for the oil recovery operation for injection into an oil reservoir. During a second stage, some or all of the nuclear reactors in the subset can be reconfigured to generate electricity that can be routed to an industrial process different than the oil recovery operation.
US12247465B2
A downhole tool is disclosed that includes an expandable liner, an expansion cone, and an expansion cone driver connected to the expansion cone. The expandable liner includes an upper tubular body, a lower cone housing having an outer diameter greater than the upper tubular body, a eutectic alloy layer surrounding a circumference of the upper tubular body, and a bottom packer and a top packer extending around the upper tubular body and positioned around opposite ends of the eutectic alloy layer. The expansion cone has a cone body provided in the lower cone housing and a heater provided around an outer surface of the cone body.
US12247463B2
A subsea injection system may include one or more filter stages to filter seawater and output filtered seawater and waste seawater. The waste seawater may include particles removed from the filtered seawater. The subsea injection system may also include a combined pump having an injection pump to motivate the filtered seawater into a reservoir of a geological formation. The combined pump may also include a filter pump to motivate the seawater through the filter stages and a motor to drive the injection pump and the filter pump. The motor may drive the filter pump via an indirect coupling such that the motor is sealed from the filter pump at the indirect coupling.
US12247457B1
An improved top pot assembly utilizes an attachment body for attaching the rubber to a bearing assembly for rotation with the inner barrel. The attachment body simplifies the replacement of the rubber on the drilling assembly. The attachment body provides a guide that slopes downward into the central aperture and the bore to guide the mandrel and drilling string towards the bore. The attachment body also provides a stripper receiver for attachment of the rubber to the attachment body. The attachment body attaches to the housing which attaches to the bearing assembly for rotation of the rubber and the inner barrel.
US12247456B1
A technique facilitates reliable operation of a blowout preventer (BOP) system. The reliable operation is achieved by utilizing a ram with improved strength so as to make it better able to resist the stresses from shearing without increasing the thickness of the ram blade. As a result, a high level of efficiency is maintained during a shearing action. According to an embodiment, a blowout preventer system comprises a blowout preventer shear ram assembly having a ram for shearing a tubular member. The ram comprises a main body and a blade extending from the main body. Additionally, a ramp buttress is secured to the blade to strengthen the blade and to improve the shearing action.
US12247454B2
An erosion sensor includes a plurality of individual sensing elements arranged in a stack. Each sensing element is separated from an adjacent sensing element by an electrically non-conducting material. The erosion sensor further includes a reference sensing element, the reference sensing element being separated from the closest sensing element, of the plurality of individual sensing elements, by an electrically non-conducting material. Each sensing element has a thickness of at least 0.25 mm.
US12247453B2
One illustrative apparatus disclosed herein includes a stab body, a first and second inlet/outlet and a coupler body positioned around the stab body, wherein the coupler body is adapted to rotate relative to the stab body. Also included is a first and second hydraulic coupling element positioned on the coupler body and a first and second coiled tube positioned around the stab body, the first and second coiled tubes being in fluid communication with the first and second hydraulic coupling elements respectively and the first and second inlet/outlets respectively. Also included is a first and second orientation structure and a tubing hanger. The first and second orientation structures are adapted to engage each other and establish a desired relative orientation between the coupler body and the tubing hanger.
US12247443B2
A method for attaching a ring to a borehole tool including locating the ring on the tool, running a weld bead around the ring without alloying the ring to another parent material, the weld causing contraction in a circumferential dimension of the ring. A method for producing a ring for a downhole tool including forming the ring with a weld groove at an outside surface of the ring. A ring for a downhole tool including a ring body, a weld groove formed in an outside surface of the ring. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a ring disposed on the string.
US12247441B2
An apparatus includes front and back legs and a top cap that is pivotally coupled to the front legs along a first lateral axis and pivotally coupled to the back legs along a second lateral axis. The top cap has a front edge, a back edge, and a top surface available for use as a seat. The first lateral axis is closer to the front edge than the second lateral axis, and the first lateral axis is spaced further from the front edge than the second lateral axis is spaced from the back edge. The apparatus further includes a stabilizer secured to the top cap between the front edge and the first lateral axis, wherein the stabilizer extends in a downward direction from the top cap for engaging a countertop and/or a recess in the countertop, such as a sink. The stabilizer optionally includes a clamp for gripping the countertop.
US12247439B2
A covering system for an architectural feature having a roller, the roller including a main body portion and a flapper portion pivotable relative to the main body portion. The covering system also includes a first support member operatively associated at one end to the main body portion and at a second end to a bottom rail, as well as a second support member operatively associated with and laterally moveable relative to the first support member, wherein a first end of the second support member is operatively associated with the flapper portion and a second end of the second support member is operatively associated with the bottom rail. The covering system also includes a limiting mechanism configured to interact with the flapper portion of the roller to maintain the bottom rail in a horizontally level position as the second support member is moved laterally with respect to the first support member.
US12247438B2
The invention provides a double-pane insulating glazing unit having a single between-pane space. The single between-pane space is located between the two glass panes. Preferably, the double-pane insulating glazing unit is devoid of a third glass pane. The double-pane insulating glazing unit has an aerogel layer located in the between-pane space.
US12247434B2
A method for execution by a computing entity includes interpreting a fluid flow response from fluid flow sensors to produce a piston position of a piston associated with a head unit device. The head unit device includes a chamber filled with a shear thickening fluid (STF). The method further includes determining a door position based on the piston position. The method further includes determining parameters for wireless signals based on the door position. The method further includes facilitating utilization of the parameters for the wireless signals to promote successful communication of status and/or control of the door via the wireless signals.
US12247433B2
An infrared (IR) sensor for use in a door sensor. The IR sensor may include a plurality of emitters arranged in multiple rows. Each emitter of the plurality of emitters may be configured to emit an emission beam comprising IR light. A plurality of receptors may be arranged in multiple rows. Each receptor of the plurality of receptors may be configured to receive a reception beam comprising the IR light reflected off of a surface. One or more lenses comprising refractive elements may be configured to duplicate and direct one or more of the emission beams and one or more of the reception beams onto the surface to form an IR pattern. The IR pattern may include multiple IR curtains. One or more of the receptors and/or emitters may be deactivated to change a width of the IR pattern and/or number of IR curtains.
US12247432B2
An automatic door can include a plurality of millimeter wave (mmW) sensors that are each configured to sense a door area. Each mmW sensor includes a mmW radar configured to capture mmW radar data and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to measure an orientation of the mmW radar. Based on IMU data from the mmW sensors, the mmW radar data from the sensors can be combined so that the door areas can form a combined door area. Multiple targets can be detected and tracked through the combined door area at high resolutions and in a variety of environmental conditions. Control of the automatic door can be enhanced in a variety of ways by classifying the targets and predicting their movements in the combined door area. Further, the classification and prediction of targets can facilitate safe and reliable operation by filtering operation based on certain targets and/or motions.
US12247419B2
A lock striker of a motor vehicle body lock includes a striker and at least one additional mass. The striker is arranged on a striker plate. The striker has a striker section which is configured to admit a load. The striker plate has a first striker plate section which is configured to be connected to a body component. The striker plate has a second striker plate section on which the striker is arranged. The first striker plate section and the second striker plate section are connected to one another. The first striker plate section and the second striker plate section are spaced apart from one another so as to form a receiving space in which a damping means is situated. The at least one additional mass is arranged on the second striker plate section and/or on that region of the striker which is adjacent to said second striker plate section.
US12247411B2
A fence protector comprising a box, a plurality of gripping slats, and a plurality of drainage holes. The box further comprising a front face, a back face, a left-side face, a right-side face, a bottom face, an interior side, an exterior side, and a top opening, wherein the top opening is positioned opposite the bottom face and configured to accept picket boards. The plurality of gripping slats is connected to the interior side of the box and configured to grip and hold the picket board to the fence protector. The plurality of drainage holes is positioned in the bottom face of the box and configured to allow water to drain from the fence protector.
US12247401B2
A baluster installation system. The system can comprise a connector comprising a first section for engaging an end of a baluster and a second end for engaging a route in a handrail. The first section can comprise a first shaft and a plurality of first ribs extending from the first shaft, and the second section can include a second shaft and a plurality of second ribs extending from the second shaft. The first ribs can be adapted to engage a portion of the baluster when the first section is engaged with the end of the baluster, and the second ribs can be adapted to engage sidewalls of the route when the second section is engaged with the route.
US12247400B2
Systems and methods can include scoring a backing material of a luxury vinyl plank (“LVP”) to allow an otherwise rigid plank to flex within a scoring section. The scoring section can include multiple parallel grooves that reach a depth that partially scores the backing material. The LVP can be positioned on a stair tread such that the scoring section wraps around an edge of the tread nose. The LVP can be clamped on top and bottom of the stair tread nose to allow adhesives to take effect. A scoring device can include a blade assembly with multiple blades to create multiple scored grooves in one pass.
US12247397B2
Insulated wall and roof sheathing systems for use in building construction designed to provide moisture permeable wall panels that protect from bulk water, excess air, and thermal transfer.
US12247396B2
In an aspect a method of manufacturing a ceiling panel is described. The method may include: combining a binding agent with plastic flakes; passing the plastic flakes and the binding agent to a lamination machine; applying a force to the binding agent and the plastic flakes using the lamination machine to create a plastic sheet; and adding a decorative ceiling treatment to a first side of the plastic sheet.
US12247388B1
A weight-bearing system for hanging items from the roof structure of a metal building is disclosed. The system includes a purlin with at least one flange, a span aperture in the vertical span of the purlin, a clip that attaches to the purlin using the span aperture, and a fastener on the clip for transferring weight applied to the fastener to the clip and to the vertical span of said purlin.
US12247385B2
The present invention is of a wall to wall drain assembly. The drain assembly comprise of a floor grill, at least one removable end cap, a drain channel, and a drain. The drain assembly may be affixed to a predetermined shower length. The shower dimensions may be of at least thirty inches in length and at most eighty-four inches in length. The drain assembly may require at most two slopes to be installed in a shower floor compartment.
US12247382B2
The disclosed technology includes a tank system including a gravity tank configured to contain water at atmospheric pressure, a rigid pressurized tank positioned within the gravity tank and configured to contain water at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, and a piston assembly positioned below the rigid pressurized tank and configured to open and close the rigid pressurized tank. The gravity tank is configured to channel water at atmospheric pressure into a toilet bowl at a first velocity and the rigid pressurized tank is configured to channel water at the pressure greater than atmospheric pressure into the toilet bowl at a second velocity. The second velocity is greater than the first velocity.
US12247381B2
A urinal assembly having a frame and a plurality of posts or posts extending from the frame. The frame can include a plurality of openings. The openings can be defined by a plurality of sides and corners. The posts can extend from the corners and/or from the sides of the openings. In some embodiments, posts extend from a first face and a second face of the frame.
US12247379B2
A siphon includes a bypass. The siphon includes an upper section having a top coupling for connecting to a drain outlet and a side drain opening having coupling for connecting to a wastewater utility pipe. The siphon upper section is facilitates direct flow via the side drain opening, thereby to bypassing a basin of the siphon. Thus, substantial volume of accumulated water is evacuating directly into the wastewater utility pipe.
US12247375B2
A sanitary outflow unit (1) to be used in a water dispensing device (20), having a water supply (3) and a water outlet (4), which sanitary outflow unit includes at least one holding element (11) that can be switched between a release position and a holding position, wherein, in the holding position, a peripheral contour (18) of the sanitary outflow unit (1) is enlarged by the holding element (11). The holding element (11) includes in particular a bending element (12) having a holding lug (13) which, in the holding position of the holding element (11), engages behind a wall (22) of an installation opening (21) in the water dispensing device (20).
US12247365B2
A method for adjusting a marine or land habitation system to environmental conditions includes a method for moving a habitable chamber and a monopole column supporting the habitable chamber at a first end of the monopole column. The monopole column is controlled by motors. One motor moves the monopole column for moving the habitable chamber vertically, and the other motor rotates the habitable chamber to accommodate the wind direction.
US12247362B1
A pothole-repairing apparatus includes a frame, first and second continuous track assemblies connected to opposite sides of the frame, a brush assembly connected to the frame, an asphalt pouring assembly disposed on the frame, at least one ultrasonic sensor disposed on the frame, a grader blade connected to the frame, a power source disposed on the frame, a controlling circuit disposed on the frame, a transceiver disposed on the frame, and a plurality of motors for controlling the operations of the first and second continuous track assemblies, the brush assembly and asphalt pouring assembly. The brush assembly can be used to clean a pothole free of debris. The asphalt pouring assembly can be used to fill the pothole with an asphalt mix. The asphalt mix can be compacted in the pothole by driving over the asphalt mix with the first and second continuous track assemblies.
US12247359B2
A road network balanced drainage method aimed at reducing urban waterlogging is disclosed. According to the drainage demand, the existing intersection elevation is changed or the intersection elevation that meets the drainage requirement is designed and implemented in new construction so that the intersection drainage is distributed according to the desired proportion; the water flowing to the water accumulation position is transferred to reduce the waterlogging degree. Through the analysis of the depth of water accumulation in the whole road network, the method of water flow distribution at the intersection is used to make the precipitation flow evenly distributed in the whole road network. The method can be used for solving serious water accumulation of a certain road section, the balanced drainage of the whole road network, the technical transformation of existing intersections, and for the planned and designed roads. The method can effectively eliminate and prevent urban waterlogging.
US12247356B2
A process including providing a paper substrate; disposing a water soluble precoat composition onto all or a portion of the paper substrate to provide a treated paper; applying an image onto the treated paper using a toner or an aqueous ink to provide an imaged paper; wherein the water soluble precoat composition forms a temporary barrier between the toner or aqueous ink and the paper substrate; and wherein, during a paper pulping process, the water soluble precoat composition dissolves thereby releasing the toner or aqueous ink from the paper substrate.
US12247345B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a condensed water collector that is disposed in the cabinet and defines a collection space configured to receive condensed water therein, a discharge pump assembly disposed at the condensed water collector and configured to pump the condensed water from the condensed water collector, a water discharge container configured to receive the condensed water collector pumped from the condensed water collector, and a sterilization module configured to sterilize the condensed water in the condensed water collector.
US12247336B2
A device for manufacturing a pleated curtain includes elongate pleating means for forming a first fold in the curtain by folding the curtain around a long side of the pleating means along a fold line, clamping means for clamping a pleat portion of the curtain on either side of the first fold along a clamping line parallel to the fold line such that the pleat portion forms a loop, and control means for controlling the pleating means and the clamping means. The control means move the pleating means and/or clamping means such that the pleating means are arranged from a position inside the loop to a position adjacent the loop, while the clamping means clamp the pleat portion, such that a remaining portion of the curtain is folded round an outer end of the clamping means and a second fold is formed adjacently of and parallel to the first fold.
US12247333B2
A crochet assistance apparatus for supporting at least a portion of a flexible filament may include a first plurality of elongated projections and a second plurality of elongated projections, and may be movable between a first position and a second position. Each elongated projection of the first plurality of elongated projections may be proximate to the second plurality of elongated projections when the apparatus is in the first position, and one or more elongated projections of the first plurality of elongated projections may be moved out of being proximate to the second plurality of elongated projections when the apparatus is in the second position. A guide assembly may have a guide aperture that extends above both the first plurality of elongated projections and the second plurality of elongated projections. A tensioner assembly may be configured to receive and exert a resistance to the flexible filament moving through the tensioner assembly.
US12247330B2
A cylindrical structure including a first cloth including a piezoelectric thread that generates an electric potential from external energy, a second cloth including a piezoelectric thread that generates an electric potential from external energy, and a connection portion connecting the first cloth and the second cloth, wherein the first cloth and the second cloth forms a side face of the cylindrical structure.
US12247313B2
Disclosed are a Czochralski single crystal furnace for preparing monocrystalline silicon and a method for preparing monocrystalline silicon using the same. The Czochralski single crystal furnace is switchable between a first operation state and a second operation state. In response to the Czochralski single crystal furnace being switched between the first operation state and the second operation state, a first heat-preserving barrel moves relative to a second heat-preserving barrel. In response to the Czochralski single crystal furnace being in the first operation state, a side wall of the second heat-preserving barrel covers a first opening so as to isolate a reaction chamber from outside Czochralski single crystal furnace. In response to the Czochralski single crystal furnace being in the second operation state, the second heat-preserving barrel exposes the first opening, so that the reaction chamber is connected to the outside through the first opening.
US12247301B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a catalyst composition, wherein in an aqueous medium containing an iridium compound, at a pH 9, an iridium-containing solid is deposited on a support material, and the support material loaded with the iridium-containing solid is separated from the aqueous medium and dried, wherein, in the method, the support material loaded with the iridium-containing solid is not subjected to a thermal treatment at a temperature of more than 250° C. for a period of time of longer than 1 hour.
US12247300B2
An object of the invention is to provide a cleaning liquid for semiconductor substrates having undergone a chemical mechanical polishing process, the cleaning liquid being excellent in corrosion prevention properties and defect suppression performance with respect to a metal film. Another object of the invention is to provide a method of cleaning semiconductor substrates having undergone a chemical mechanical polishing process. A cleaning liquid of the invention is used for semiconductor substrates having undergone a chemical mechanical polishing process and includes: an amine oxide compound that is a compound having an amine oxide group, or its salt; and at least one hydroxylamine compound selected from the group consisting of a hydroxylamine, a hydroxylamine derivative, and their salts, and the amine oxide compound content is 0.00001 to 0.15 mass % based on the total mass of the cleaning liquid.
US12247297B2
The present invention provides: a multilayer film structure which has high crystallinity and planarity; and a method for producing this multilayer film structure. This multilayer film structure is provided with: an Si (111) substrate; a first thin film that is arranged on the Si (111) substrate, while being formed of a nitride material and/or aluminum; and a second thin film that is arranged on the first thin film, while being formed of a nitride material. An amorphous layer having a thickness of 0 nm or more but less than 1.0 nm are present on the Si (111) substrate; and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a rocking curve of the (0002) plane at the surface of this multilayer film structure is 1.50° or less.
US12247291B2
Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having an aluminum borate coating able to impart larger tension that the past and a method for manufacturing grain-oriented electrical steel sheet are formed. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention has a steel sheet and an insulating coating formed on the steel sheet and containing aluminum and boron, where the oxides contain crystalline oxides and a maximum value of an emission intensity ratio of boron with respect to aluminum at an interface between the insulating coating and the steel sheet, analyzed by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, is 2.5 times or more and 4.0 times or less of the emission intensity ratio of boron with respect to aluminum in the insulating coating.
US12247290B2
Provided is a flow rate control method, including: supplying fluid from a valve to a first sensor; measuring, by the first sensor, a first temperature of the fluid, and heating the fluid; measuring, by a second sensor, a second temperature of the heated fluid, and determining, by a controller, a first flow rate of the fluid based on comparison between the first temperature and the second temperature; supplying the fluid to a chamber and supplying an ignition voltage to the chamber through a radio frequency (RF) power source; measuring, by a third sensor, the ignition voltage; comparing, by the controller, the ignition voltage and a reference voltage to determine a second flow rate of the fluid; and controlling a supply of the fluid from the valve based on at least one of the first flow rate and or the second flow rate.
US12247286B2
A cooling apparatus and methods for maintaining a precursor source vessel heater at a desired temperature are disclosed. The apparatus and methods can be used to maintain a desired temperature gradient within the precursor source vessel for improved integrity of the precursor source before delivery of the precursor to a reaction chamber. The apparatus and methods can also be used for rapid cooling of a source vessel for maintenance.
US12247281B2
A method for coating a substrate with a Co-Pi modified BiVO4/WO3 heterostructure film includes direct current reactive sputtering tungsten (W) onto a substrate in a gaseous mixture containing oxygen to form a tungsten trioxide (WO3) film, direct current reactive sputtering bismuth (Bi) onto the tungsten trioxide (WO3) film in a gaseous mixture containing oxygen to form a dibismuth trioxide (Bi2O3) film, drop-casting a vanadyl acetylacetonate solution onto the Bi2O3 film and heating at a temperature of at least 450° C. in ambient air to convert the Bi2O3 film to a BiVO4 film, and photoelectrochemically coating the BiVO4 film with a cobalt-phosphate (Co-Pi) to form a modified film on the surface of the substrate. A photoanode containing the Co-Pi modified BiVO4/WO3 heterostructure film prepared by the method, and its application in water splitting.
US12247280B2
Provided is a carrier-attached metal foil which can suppress the number of foreign matter particles on the surface of a metal layer to enhance circuit formability, and can keep stable releasability even after heating at a high temperature of 240° C. or higher (for example, 260° C.) for a long period of time. The carrier-attached metal foil includes a carrier, a release functional layer provided on the carrier, the release functional layer including a metal oxynitride, and a metal layer provided on the release functional layer.
US12247278B2
A method of producing an integrated monolithic aluminum structure including providing an 7xxx-series aluminum alloy plate with a predetermined thickness of at least 10 mm, and wherein the plate has been solution heat treated and stretched, heat-treating the plate product in a first of a plurality of artificial ageing steps required to achieve a final temper state, high-energy hydroforming the plate against a forming surface of a rigid die having a contour with a desired curvature of the integrated monolithic aluminum structure, the high energy forming causing the aluminum alloy plate to conform to the forming surface contour to at least one of a uniaxial curvature and a biaxial curvature, heat-treating the integrated monolithic aluminum structure through a remaining ageing step of the ageing steps to achieve a desired final temper, and machining the high-energy formed structure to a near-final or final machined integrated monolithic aluminum structure.
US12247276B2
The present invention provides a copper powder which is capable of fusion bonding with a low energy laser by enabling heat to be efficiently inputted with a high absorption rate for laser irradiation and has high convenience in handling, and provides a method for manufacturing the copper powder. One embodiment of the present invention is a copper powder, having an absorption rate for light having a wavelength λ=1060 nm of 18.9% to 65.0%, and an index, which is indicated by (the absorption rate for light having a wavelength λ=1060 nm)/(an oxygen concentration), of 3.0 or more.
US12247268B2
A sublimation/distillation apparatus including a crucible with an open end, a heating device thermally coupled to the crucible, an actively cooled collection substrate disposed above the open end of the crucible, and a vacuum chamber housing the crucible, the heating device, and the actively cooled collection substrate.
US12247267B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing lithium hydroxide from a lithium concentrate through sodium sulfate addition and roasting. The method effectively recover lithium ions from the lithium concentrate, minimizes production of byproducts, and produces high-purity lithium hydroxide. By mixing a concentrate containing lithium with sodium sulfate (Na2SO4), roasting the concentrate, and leaching the roasted concentrate with water, it is possible to recover lithium ions at a high recovery rate and to produce high-purity lithium hydroxide monohydrate.
US12247255B2
The present invention is directed to the probes for detecting known and unknown fusion genes, related methods of detection of fusion genes, uses and kits related thereto. In particular, the invention relates to methods of diagnosing and monitoring of a cancer.
US12247253B2
The invention generally relates to sequencing library preparation methods. In certain embodiments, two template nucleic acids are joined together by a linking molecule, such as a PEG derivative. The linked template nucleic acids is amplified, creating linked amplicons.
US12247242B2
The present invention relates to a gene expression cassette including a synthetic 5′ untranslated region (5′ UTR), a promoter, and a regulatory gene; a recombinant vector including a replication origin and the gene expression cassette; a recombinant microorganism which has the recombinant vector introduced thereinto and shows alleviated segregational instability and; a method for preparing a recombinant microorganism having alleviated segregational instability by introducing the recombinant vector thereinto; and a method for quantitatively controlling a plasmid copy number in a recombinant microorganism. According to the present invention, removal of infA and efp, which are genes indispensable for cells, encoding respectively for a translation initiation factor and a protein elongation factor (EF-P), from a microbial chromosome and introduction of the gene expression cassette including the regulatory gene with Escherichia coli serving as a host allow the stable maintenance of plasmids in an antibiotic-free medium without causing intercellular intrinsic variations. In addition, the precise control of expression levels of infA and efp in the recombinant microorganism by means of a promoter can lead to the quantitative control of PCN at high yield as well. Therefore, the present invention can find a broad spectrum of applications in a variety of industries producing recombinant proteins.
US12247233B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of using transaminase polypeptides in the synthesis of chiral amines from prochiral ketones.
US12247226B2
Provided are methods and compositions for inducing the reprogramming of a non-pluripotent to an iPSC having desirable properties using a vector system providing transient and temporal expression of transgenes that are short-lived. Also provided are reprogramming cells and iPSC populations or clonal cell lines using the provided reprogramming methods and compositions. Further provided are genome-engineered iPSCs and derived cells redifferentiated therefrom to comprise targeted editing involving insertions and deletions in one or more selected genomic loci.
US12247224B2
Cell culture mediums for generating organoids, including tumour organoids. Specifically, such mediums comprise: a cell culture medium; an antioxidant; a serum free supplement; an insulin receptor agonist; a glucocorticoid; and an FGFR agonist. Other aspects involve methods of generating tumour organoids from tumours. Such methods can comprise generating pancreatic progenitor organoids from pluripotent stem cells, pancreatic lineage committed progenitors.
US12247222B2
The present invention relates to methods that are based on expression of integrin alpha10 and integrin alpha11 on chondrocytes, used for determining purity, quality, degree of chondrocytic identity, chondrocytic potency, and/or degree of chondrocytic phenotype of a composition comprising chondrocytes, as well as for isolating and enriching a population of high quality chondrocytes and controlling culturing and expanding of high quality chondrocytes. The present invention relates also to composition comprising chondrocytes.
US12247202B2
DNA molecules for making a circular RNA are provided. The DNA molecule may include elements operably connected and arranged, from a 5′ to 3′ direction, in the following order: (a) an intron fragment that includes a full-length intron; (b) an E2 fragment which includes a downstream exon of the full-length intron; and (c) an E1 fragment which includes an upstream exon of the full-length intron. 3′ end of the E1 fragment is configured to produce a hydroxyl group in an in vitro transcription reaction; the hydroxyl group is capable of initiating splicing in a one-step transesterification reaction at a splice site between RNA fragments transcribed from the intron fragment and the E2 fragment in a linear RNA that is produced from the DNA molecule in the in vitro transcription reaction, such that the linear RNA is configured to self-circularize to produce the circular RNA.
US12247196B2
The present disclosure provides for engineered microorganisms and methods of making and using same. The engineered microorganisms as described herein can have a surface display and can be useful as therapeutic agents (e.g., sponges) and biosensors.
US12247192B2
A portable apparatus and method for transport and incubation of a medical sample in a blood culture flask includes a sealable container having a thermally insulated compartment for receiving the blood culture flask and a heater for heating the medical sample to a temperature suitable for pre-culturing of the sample. An agitator is provided for agitating the sample in the blood culture flask.
US12247185B2
Liquid multipurpose alkaline compositions for use as pre-sprays to beneficially remove polymerized soils, de-stain, remove hard water deposits and/or otherwise assist in general cleaning of difficult soils are provided. The multipurpose alkaline compositions include at least one non-hydroxide alkaline source, at least one surfactant, a chelant and a solvent system. The multipurpose alkaline compositions can be PPE free compositions. Methods of using the multipurpose alkaline compositions as pre-treatments, soaks and/or application in machine and manual warewash are also provided. Methods for using the multipurpose alkaline compositions for removing tea stains, coffee stains, hard water scale/deposits, polymerized oils, carbonized soils, fats, oils, and cosmetics are further provided.
US12247184B2
A detergent composition having a) from about 10% to about 60%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant system wherein the surfactant system includes: i) at least 35%, by weight of the surfactant system, of nonionic surfactant and ii) from 5% to about 20%, by weight of the surfactant system, of amine oxide.
US12247178B2
The application concerns the use of a lubricant composition of grade 0W-8 according to the SAEJ300 classification, comprising at least one base oil, from 1 to 1000 ppm of at least one friction modifying additive and from 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one polymer improving the viscosity index, said lubricant composition having kinematic viscosity measured at 40° C. according to standard ASTM D445 lower than or equal to 20 mm2/s, kinematic viscosity measured at 100° C. according to standard ASTM D445 lower than 5 mm2/s, and Noack volatility measured at 250° C. according to standard CEC-L-40-A-93 of between 10 and 85%, preferably between 25 and 85%, more preferably between 60 and 85%, for the lubrication of a rechargeable hybrid vehicle engine or a hybrid vehicle engine comprising a range extender.
US12247173B2
The preset invention provides an energy-saving process and device for recovering C2 from refinery dry gas. The process is as follows: dry gas is cooled and then sent to a multi-stage absorption tower for treatment; the gas phase from the multi-stage absorption tower is sent to a fuel gas pipeline network or PSA unit, and the liquid phase is sent to a high-pressure flash zone for treatment; the gas phase from the high-pressure flash zone is returned to a compression section of a dry gas pretreatment system; the gas phase from the low-pressure flash zone is sent to a C2 concentrated gas compressor system; and the gas phase from the desorption tower is mixed with the gas phase obtained from the low-pressure flash zone and sent to an ethylene cracking furnace as a C2 concentrated gas product, most of the liquid phase is returned to the multi-stage absorption tower.
US12247172B2
The subject invention provides microbe-based products, as well as their use to improve oil production and refining efficiency by, for example, remediating the disposable layers in oil tanks and other oil storage units. In preferred embodiments, the microbe-based products comprise biochemical-producing yeast and growth by-products thereof, such as, e.g., biosurfactants. The subject invention can be used to remediate rag layer and/or other dissolved solid layers that form in water-oil emulsions. Furthermore, the subject invention can be used for remediating solid impurities, such as sand, scale, rust and clay, in produced water, flow-back, brine, and/or fracking fluids.
US12247168B2
The present invention relates to curable photochromic compositions which include an at least di-functional oxazoline functional material, an at least di-functional first carboxylic acid functional material, an optional second carboxylic acid functional material having at least three carboxylic acid groups, which optionally includes a carboxylic acid functional polymer, and a photochromic compound. The curable photochromic compositions have an equivalents ratio of oxazoline equivalents of the oxazoline functional material to a total carboxylic acid equivalents of the first and optional second carboxylic acid functional materials of from 0.5:1 to 10:1 when the second carboxylic acid functional material is not present, and from 0.5:1 to 3:1 when the second carboxylic acid functional material is present. The present invention, more particularly, relates to curable photochromic adhesive compositions, and curable photochromic coating compositions.
US12247164B2
Fracturing or fracking fluids for fracturing a subterranean reservoir for hydrocarbon recovery and related methods are described. The fluid comprises lignin, in particular technical lignin, and at least one strain of bacteria capable of biosurfactant production and/or a biosurfactant produced by at least one such isolated strain of bacteria. Also described is a fracturing method for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation.
US12247162B2
Provided herein are liquid polymer (LP) compositions comprising a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer), as well as methods for preparing inverted polymer solutions by inverting these LP compositions in an aqueous fluid. The resulting inverted polymer solutions can have a concentration of a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer) of from 50 to 15,000 ppm, and a filter ratio of 1.5 or less at 15 psi using a 1.2 μm filter. Also provided are methods of using these inverted polymer solutions in oil and gas operations, including enhanced oil recovery.
US12247159B1
A hardened cement produced by setting a cement slurry including graphene comprising bioderived renewable graphene (BRG), a cement, and water. The graphene of the cement slurry comprises, consists essentially of, or consists of BRG, and the cement slurry comprises at least 0.2 (e.g., from about 0.2 to about 20) percent graphene comprising BRG by weight of cement (% graphene bwoc). The hardened cement produced by allowing the cement slurry to set has one or more enhanced mechanical properties (e.g., increased Young's modulus (YM), increased compressive strength (CS), or increased resiliency as indicated by an increased reduction in a ratio of YM/CS) relative to a same hardened cement produced by allowing to set a same cement slurry comprising a same total amount of graphene, with synthetic graphene (SG) in place of at least a portion of the BRG. Methods of cementing with the cement slurry are also provided.
US12247137B2
A renewable solvent composition having a high i-paraffin content of at least 91.0 wt.-% and a boiling in a range of from 150° C. to 260° C. is disclosed. The solvent composition can provide a good balance between solvency power and cold properties and is usable in a broad application field.
US12247136B2
An antimicrobial coating composition is disclosed. The antimicrobial coating composition also includes a polymer having a plurality of alkene units and a plurality of macroCTA polymer units. The composition also includes one or more reactive silanes, one or more wetting agents, and one or more solvents. A method for applying an antimicrobial coating composition is disclosed. The method for applying an antimicrobial coating composition may include contacting a polymer, one or more wetting agents, one or more solvents, and one or more reactive silanes with one another to prepare an antimicrobial coating composition, homogenizing the antimicrobial coating composition, applying the antimicrobial coating composition to a substrate, and allowing the antimicrobial coating composition to dry at ambient conditions.
US12247132B2
The present invention provides an aqueous ink comprising one or more film forming agents, wherein the total film forming agent concentration in the aqueous ink is from 0.1 to 30 wt. %, and optionally one or more emulsifiers, preferably wherein the total emulsifier concentration in the aqueous ink is from 0.1 to 10 wt. %. The one or more emulsifiers, if present, are fatty acid esters of polyalkoxylated sorbitan and/or the one or more film forming agents fulfil at least one of the following properties: a Young modulus of at least 2 GPa, and a nano hardness of at least 0.08 GPa. Also provided is a use thereof for inkjet printing, preferably on a corrugated board or on a liner for the production of corrugated board.
US12247128B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous suspension comprising a ground calcium carbonate-comprising material, the use of a homopolymer or a copolymer in such a process for preparing an aqueous suspension comprising a ground calcium carbonate-comprising material, an aqueous suspension comprising a ground calcium carbonate-comprising material obtained by the process, and the use of an aqueous suspension comprising a ground calcium carbonate-comprising material in paper applications such as paper filling and paper coating applications, in coating applications, in paints, in adhesives, in sealants, in concrete, in agriculture applications, in food applications, in cosmetic applications, or in pharmaceutical applications.
US12247123B2
Disclosed herein are polymeric compositions with low dielectric loss while maintaining high dielectric constant. The composition includes: a) at least one thermoplastic polymer; and b) graphite flakes that are coated with silica coating particles, wherein, the coated graphite flakes have a weight ratio of C:Si ranging from about 10:1-4:1, and the silica coating particles have an average diameter of about 80-400 nm.
US12247121B2
A curable composition comprising: i) a glycidyl ether of a novolac, comprising or consisting of moieties having the formula (I), wherein —Ra is either always hydrogen or always methyl; —B is either always *—CH2-** or always formula (A); —a fraction of 0.8 to 0.99 of the Y moieties are essentially —O-glycidyl, this fraction being designated as x, and the remainder of the Y moieties, this fraction being designated as (1-x), are divalent bridging spacers of the structure *—O—CH2—CH(OH)—CH2—O—** connecting two moieties according to above formula (I); and—n is a number in the range of 0.1 to 3.0; and wherein said novolac glycidyl ether has an epoxy equivalent weight FEW in the range of 160 to 270 g/eq. and the average number of epoxy groups per molecule of novolac glycidyl ether (I), designated as f, is in the range of 2.1 to 5.0; ii) dicyandiamide; and iii) an urea derivative of the formula (II). This composition is stable upon storage at room temperature and fire-retardant. It can be used for preparation of prepregs and in core filling, particularly in the aerospace field.
US12247104B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a resin material that has a novel structure and can be suitably used in a printed wiring board: and a resin composition that contains this resin material and has a cured product thereof having a low dielectric loss tangent and excellent adhesion, heat resistance, and mechanical characteristics. The present invention provides: a polyamic acid resin that is a reaction product of an amino phenol compound (a), an aliphatic diamino compound (b), a tetrabasic acid dianhydride (c), and an aromatic diamino compound (d), said polyamic acid resin having an amino group at both ends thereof: a polyimide resin being an imidization compound of the polyamic acid resin: a resin composition containing the polyimide resin: and a cured product thereof.
US12247094B2
Polymerizable liquids for 3D printing applications are described herein which, in some embodiments, impart flame resistant and/or flame retardant properties to articles printed from the build materials. The polymerizable liquids may also impart desirable mechanical properties to the articles. In some embodiments, a polymerizable liquid comprises a curable isocyanurate component in an amount of at least 20 wt. %, based on total weight of the polymerizable liquid, and an organophosphate component comprises one or more organophosphate compounds. In some embodiments, the polymerizable liquid further comprises an acrylate component.
US12247080B2
The present invention relates to monospecific or bispecific antibody molecules that specifically bind the human DR5 antigen. The invention relates in particular to DR5-specific antibody molecules of the IgG1 isotype having a mutation in the Fc region that enhances clustering of IgG molecules after cell-surface antigen binding leading to the induction of DR5 signalling, apoptosis and cell death. The invention further relates to a combination of antibody molecules binding different epitopes on DR5. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these molecules and the treatment of cancer using these compositions.
US12247069B2
The invention provides a method of treating a disease or disorder in a subject by inducing a TGF alpha immune response or by administering an anti-TGF-alpha antibody or a biologically active fragment thereof. The TGF-alpha immune response is induced using a TGF-alpha polypeptide or biologically active fragment, a vaccine, a genetic construct or a transformed cell, for example.
US12247046B2
Disclosed are messenger RNA molecules and related compositions incorporating a 4′-thio modification in the furanose ring of at least one nucleotide residue, and methods of using these mRNAs to produce an encoded therapeutic protein in vivo and to treat or prevent diseases or disorders. In certain embodiments, the 4′-thio modified mRNA provides for enhanced stability and/or reduced immunogenicity in in vivo therapies.
US12247045B2
This invention relates to compounds that may be useful as inhibitors of Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Kinase Kinase Kinase-4 (MAP4K4). The invention also relates to the use these compounds, for example in a method of treatment of cardiac conditions. In particular, the present invention relates to compounds of formula (I):
US12247044B2
A composition contains a naphthalocyanine derivative represented by the following formula: where R1 to R8 are independently an alkyl group and R9 to R12 are independently an aryl group, and at least one hydrogen atom in at least one selected from the group consisting of R9, R10, R11, and R12 is substituted by an electron-withdrawing group.
US12247038B2
The present disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula (I): which modulate PD-1/PD-L1 protein/protein interaction, compositions, and methods of treating various diseases, including infectious diseases and cancer.
US12247033B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), compositions containing them, and to their use in the treatment of various disorders, in particular autoimmune, autoinflammatory or immune-mediated conditions, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) and lupus nephritis.
US12247032B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein, and salts thereof, that are useful as JAK kinase inhibitors are described herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions that include such a JAK inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, adjuvant or vehicle, and methods of treating or lessening the severity of a disease or condition responsive to the inhibition of a Janus kinase activity in a patient.
US12247031B2
The present invention is directed to cyclobutyl pyrazolopyrimidine compounds which may be useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 9 (PDE9). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as hypertension, chronic kidney disease and heart failure, and neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.
US12247026B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I′), methods of using the compounds as immunomodulators, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are useful in treating, preventing or ameliorating diseases or disorders such as cancer or infections.
US12247013B2
The invention relates to an indane compound according to Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, L, n and p are as defined herein. The compounds are useful for treating antibacterial infection either as stand-alone antibiotics, or in combination with further antibiotics.
US12247012B2
The present disclosures are directed to processes for synthesizing (S)-2-(((S)-6,8-difluoro-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-2-yl)amino)-N-(1-(2-methyl-1-(neopentylamino)propan-2-yl)-1H-imidazol-4-yl)pentanamide (“nirogacestat”).
US12247002B2
In a urea synthesis process, temperature distribution in a submerged condenser is reduced. The process includes: synthesizing urea from NH3 and CO2 to generate a urea synthesis solution; by heating the solution, decomposing ammonium carbamate and separating a gaseous mixture containing NH3 and CO2 from the solution to obtain a solution higher in urea concentration than the solution obtained in the synthesizing; with use of a submerged condenser including a shell and tube heat exchange structure including a U-tube, absorbing and condensing at least a part of the gaseous mixture in an absorption medium on a shell side, and generating steam on a tube side with use of heat generated during the condensation; and recycling at least a part of liquid, obtained from the shell side, to the synthesizing, wherein water is supplied to the tube side of the condenser at a mass flow rate that is three times or more of the steam generation rate.
US12246988B2
An inference method includes inferring a value that includes a stress value in a region located 50 μm or shallower from a surface of a chemically strengthened glass, by receiving as input at least a temperature and a time used upon chemical strengthening, and stress values at three or more different depth positions 20 μm or deeper from the surface of the chemically strengthened glass that has been obtained by chemically strengthening a glass having a thickness of 0.2 mm or greater with the temperature and the time.
US12246987B2
A tempered glass has a surface and a thickness. When a compressive stress of the tempered glass is represented by a positive number and a tensile stress thereof is represented by a negative number, the compressive stress at the surface is 400 MPa or more, a stress profile of the tempered glass obtained by measuring a stress in a depth direction from the surface has inflection points at each of which a second derivative of the stress profile becomes zero between the surface and a depth equal to half of the thickness, and the compressive stress value at a first inflection point at a position closest to the surface among the inflection points is 150 MPa or less. The compressive stress at a second inflection point at a position deeper than the first inflection point is 45 MPa or less.
US12246984B2
A glass coating composition may include a glass composition and a nanopowder. The nanopowder may include Zinc Oxide (ZnO) and may be added to a glass composition in 1 to 10 weight (wt %). The glass composition may include 20 to 40 wt % of phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5), a total of 15 to 30 wt % of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and zirconium dioxide (ZrO2), a total of 10 to 30 wt % of sodium oxide (Na2O) and potassium oxide (K2O), 10 to 25 wt % of boron trioxide (B2O3), and 10 to 15 wt % of zinc oxide (ZnO).
US12246983B2
A method of and an arrangement for recycling mineral wool waste to mineral wool production includes at least one melting furnace for melting virgin mineral wool raw material, the melting furnace including an inlet for virgin mineral wool raw material and an outlet for molten mineral wool material, a production line connected to the outlet for molten mineral wool material for producing a mineral wool product from the molten mineral wool material. The production line includes a curing oven, a fluidized bed reactor including an exhaust gas duct, an inlet for predetermined primary fuel, an inlet for predetermined bed material, and an outlet for an ash material, the ash material including bottom ash discharged via a bottom outlet from the fluidized bed reactor or fly ash separated by a particle separator from exhaust gas in the exhaust gas duct or a mixture of the bottom ash and the fly ash.
US12246975B2
Methods and systems for carbon sequestration in conjunction with oil and gas operations. Carbon dioxide in the form of nanobubbles is used to supersaturate treated produced water. The supersaturated produced water is then injected into Class II injection wells for effective storage in underground formations in conjunction with enhanced recovery operations or the storage and disposal of produced water from production operations.
US12246974B2
Provided are systems and methods for removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from a contaminated stream comprising: collecting a contaminated stream comprising one or more PFAS; concentrating the one or more PFAS of the contaminated stream to achieve a concentrated stream having greater than or equal to 0.01 wt. % PFAS; and removing the one or more PFAS of the concentrated stream by heating the concentrated stream in the presence of calcium oxide to produce calcium fluoride.
US12246971B2
A filter device for filtering water. The device includes a housing, for submersion in a water reservoir, that includes an intake aperture for intake of water from the reservoir and a return aperture for returning water to the reservoir. The housing extends along an axis. The device includes a pump, housed in the housing, arranged on the axis to direct fluid from the intake aperture to the return aperture. The device includes a filter arrangement, housed in the housing, arranged along the axis from the pump in a fluid path between the intake aperture and the return aperture.
US12246969B2
A method is disclosed making a molecular of TON framework type having unique properties. The method uses 1,3,4-trimethylimidazolium cations as a structure directing agent and a combined source of silicon and aluminum selected from alumina-coated silica and aluminosilicate zeolites. The obtained molecular sieve can be used in processes for dewaxing paraffinic hydrocarbon feedstocks.
US12246967B2
Provided is a process for producing an integral graphene film, comprising: (a) preparing a graphene dispersion having chemically functionalized graphene sheets dispersed in a fluid medium wherein the graphene sheets contain chemical functional groups attached thereto; (b) dispensing and depositing a wet film of the graphene dispersion onto a supporting substrate, wherein the dispensing and depositing procedure includes mechanical shear stress-induced alignment of the graphene sheets along a film planar direction, and partially or completely removing the fluid medium to form a relatively dried film comprising aligned chemically functionally graphene sheets; and (c) using heat, electromagnetic waves, UV light, or high-energy radiation to induce chemical reactions or chemical bonding between chemical functional groups attached to adjacent chemically functionalized graphene sheets to form the integral graphene film. The film after step (b) or (c) may be further compressed to increase the degree of graphene sheet orientation in the integral graphene film.
US12246950B2
A pipe spreader comprising: a frame, and; a pair of mutually cooperating pipe engagement assemblies, coupled to the frame, for engaging a pipe; each of the pair of mutually cooperating pipe engagement assemblies comprises: at least one spreader assembly, the spreader assembly includes a spreader beam and an end manipulator coupled to the spreader beam, wherein at least a portion of the spreader assembly is arranged to be selectively removable from the pipe engagement assembly.
US12246949B1
A wind turbine tower elevator includes a first tower rail, a second tower rail, an elevator, a first jacking system, a second jacking system, a first locking system, and a second locking system. The elevator includes a main platform and jack housing. The first tower rail and the second tower rail are mounted parallel to a wind turbine tower and positioned offset to each other. The main platform is connected onto the jack housing and facilitates the transportation of blades and nacelle. The first jacking system, the second jacking system, the first locking system, and the second locking system are integrated into the jack housing. The jack housing is slidably mounted to the first tower rail by the first jacking system and the first locking system and the second tower rail by the second jacking system and the second locking system.
US12246944B2
An elevator traction machine installation apparatus includes a lifting mechanism having a base portion and a load-bearing portion adapted to place an elevator traction machine, the base and load-bearing portions are connected and can rise and lower relative to each other in a longitudinal direction of an elevator hoistway; and a support mechanism configured to be detachably connected with the lifting mechanism and a base for installation of a machine-room-less elevator traction machine in the elevator hoistway to support the lifting mechanism and the elevator traction machine, and having at least two positions at which the base portion is secured, a first position is lower than a second position in the longitudinal direction, and the load-bearing portion is lifted relative to the base portion after the base portion is secured at the first position, and continues to be lifted relative to the base portion.
US12246943B2
An elevator car has car walls that form an interior for passengers. A handrail providing a rest surface for passengers is disposed in the interior on at least one of the car walls. The handrail rest surface has a height of at least 15 cm and is inclined, relative to the vertical, by an angle of inclination between 5° and 20°. The handrail can be L-shaped with two handrail portions, wherein one of the handrail portions is shorter than the other handrail portion.
US12246941B2
A sheet feeding device includes a feeding portion, a first feeding roller pair, a registration roller pair forming a nip portion and correcting oblique movement of the sheet, a sheet feeding passage between the first feeding roller pair and the registration roller pair, a revering portion provided downstream of the registration roller pair and a second feeding roller pair feeding the reversed sheet to the registration roller pair. The second roller pair includes a driven roller movable in a sheet width direction. The nip portion of the first feeding roller pair is in a spaced state when the sheet is fed by the registration roller pair, and a nip portion of the second feeding roller pair is not in the spaced state and the driven roller moves in the sheet width direction when the sheet is fed by the registration roller pair and the second feeding roller pair.
US12246939B2
A medium feeding device includes a feeder that feeds a medium, a medium detection sensor that detects the medium fed by the feeder, and a processor that changes feed settings of the feeder based on a detection result of the medium detection sensor, wherein the processor switches a feed setting to be changed among a plurality of the feed settings of the feeder based on the detection result of the medium detection sensor.
US12246930B2
According to one embodiment, a holding device includes: holding parts; a holding part opening/closing part that opens and closes the holding parts; a first sensor that detects a load received by the holding part; and a controller that controls an operation of the holding part. At least one of the plurality of holding parts includes a claw member displaceable along a length direction of the holding part, a second sensor that detects a displacement amount of the claw member, and a reaction force applying part that applies a reaction force corresponding to the displacement amount of the claw member to the claw member. The controller controls the operation of the holding part, based on a detection value of the second sensor when the displacement amount is equal to or less than a threshold value, and based on a detection value of the first sensor when the displacement amount exceeds the threshold value.
US12246926B2
A bulk material transport system includes one or more bulk material transport bins, weighing platforms, and vehicles arranged in various combinations as bulk material transporters, assemblies, and units. The system is useful for coupling with a bulk material container, forming a reduced pressure region at an inlet of the transport bin, and dispensing bulk material into the transport bin through the reduced pressure region.
US12246920B2
A tray transport apparatus comprises a reception portion configured to receive a container configured to accommodate a stack formed by stacking a plurality of trays, an accommodation portion configured to accommodate the stack, the accommodation portion being disposed above the reception portion, a transfer unit configured to lift the stack from the container to separate the stack from the container and transfer the stack to the accommodation portion, and a transport unit configured to unload a tray located at a lowermost portion of the stack accommodated in the accommodation portion.
US12246918B2
A method and apparatus are provided for delivering items to a plurality of storage locations is provided. The system includes a plurality of storage locations. The storage locations may be positioned to provide an aisle and a plurality of delivery vehicles may be operable within the aisle to deliver items to the storage locations. The system may include a track that the guides the vehicles to the storage locations. A reorientation assembly may be provided for re-orienting the vehicles relative to the track to reduce misalignment between the vehicles and the track.
US12246907B2
A package intended to contain one object, including: a box; a lid which can adopt, with the box, a closed or an open package configuration, a device for detecting the closed or open configurations, one image sensor relating to said object, one electronic display device accessible from the exterior of the package, a computing unit, intended to receive images from the image sensor and to transmit to the electronic display instructions to display said images, and mechanism for triggering the image sensor. The triggering mechanism is presented on an external façade of the package. The computing unit is connected to the detection device and is parameterized to authorize a display of the images from the image sensor in the closed package configuration and, conversely, prohibit the display in the open package configuration.
US12246904B2
A pouch according to an embodiment is a pouch having an accommodation space that accommodates contents, and including a pair of sheets, and a pair of side seal portions sealed to form the accommodation space, wherein at least one of the pair of side seal portions includes a first seal portion located near the top portion, a second seal portion located near the bottom portion and separated from the first seal portion, and a steam discharge seal portion configured to connect the first and second seal portions, to protrude to the accommodation space side, and to release steam, a portion formed by a first region between the first and second seal portions and a second region surrounded by the first region and the steam discharge seal portion is an unsealed region, and a penetration portion that passes through at least one sheet in a thickness direction is formed in the unsealed region of the at least one sheet.
US12246902B2
Disclosed is a product pouch arrangement and method of (for) manufacture thereof. The product pouch arrangement includes at least a first compartment and a second compartment, the first compartment in use includes a plurality of shock cushioning elements that cushion the one or more products, and also optically protect the one or more products, the second compartment accommodates in use the one or more products, at least one of the first and second compartments are resealable so that the one or more products and/or the plurality of cushioning elements are user-accessible and the first and second compartments have surrounding walls that are fabricated from at least one flexible plastics material that transmits electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range to which a human eye responds but attenuates radiation in an ultra violet (UV) electromagnetic wavelength range.
US12246899B2
A merchandise product is provided with a combination square having a head having a blade receiving slot and a blade releasably received in the blade receiving slot. The merchandise product includes a packaging card including a retainer structure configured to retain the head to the packaging card, a slot extending through the packaging card, and a retention member configured to pass through the slot and the blade. The retention member is configured to slide along a length of the slot and allow rotation of the blade about the retention member.
US12246893B1
A closure for a beverage can lid has a body having a back end, a front end, a front panel portion, a rear panel portion, and a step down section between the front panel portion and the rear panel portion, a left edge, and a right edge, the back end having a track portion, the front end having a left ear section having a left front edge, a central rounded recess, and a right ear section having a right front edge.
US12246886B2
A container lid is provided. The container lid comprises a lid body and an outlet lid. The lid body is provided with a liquid outlet; and the outlet lid is movably connected to the container lid, and configured to define a closed state, an opened state, and a detachable state of the container lid. When the container lid is in the closed state, the liquid outlet is closed, when the container lid is in the opened state, the liquid outlet is opened, and when the container lid is in the detachable state, the outlet lid is separated from the lid body.
US12246877B2
Disclosed are preforms which incorporate improvements in the region of the neck and upper segment of the body to allow the production of lightweight containers, such as bottles suitable for containing water or other beverages. In accordance with certain embodiments, the improvements include a thinner neck finish area than conventional bottles, where the thinner area is extended into the upper segment of the body portion below the support ring. Reducing the thickness in these areas of the bottle allows for less resin to be used in forming the preform and bottle.
US12246873B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wrapping machine that includes an indicating device including one or more light sources configured to project a visible wrapping-zone indicator. The wrapping-zone indicator includes a boundary at least partially surrounding a wrapping zone of the wrapping machine to indicate the wrapping zone.
US12246865B2
A stage has a takeoff and landing surface. The takeoff and landing surface has an opening through which loading and unloading to and from a flying object is carried out. The takeoff and landing surface has a plurality of markers formed thereon. Each marker is a figure or the like for identifying a relative position between the flying object and the stage. The opening is formed in the takeoff and landing surface such that an edge of the opening does not cross the markers.
US12246864B2
The present invention relates to a drone having a movable propeller shaft, the drone comprising: a drone body having an opening formed thereon; a plurality of propeller shafts arranged radially on the drone body, each propeller shaft having one side portion passing through the opening of the drone body to be disposed inside the drone body and a propeller housing equipped with a propeller and a propeller motor; adjustment means disposed on the drone body, linked to the plurality of propeller shafts, respectively, and configured to adjust the respective angles and heights of the plurality of propeller shafts; a sensor for sensing a rotation angle of each of the plurality of propeller shafts; and a motor driver connected to each propeller, a current check circuit for determining whether current flow is normal, an MCU for transmitting and receiving signals in connection with the current check circuit and transmitting signals to the motor driver, and a main controller connected to the MCU through a wireless communication method.
